Cultural Anthropology

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Cultural Anthropology

• February 9, 2009

Quechua Songs
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Assignment for Friday 2.13.09

• Find a review of Lines in the Water
• Read it
• Bring it to class

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LINES IN THE WATER

• What methods does Orlove use to gather data?
• Field Work Ethnography
• Cultural immersion
• Long-term, in-depth
• Participant observation
• Interviews
• Surveys
• Hanging out
• Language
• Speak language
• Study meanings of words
• Documents findings
• Journals
• Photos

• Studies archives
• Government documents
• Maps
• Collaborates with others
• IMARPE
• Explores
• Hiking on Ccapia
• Maps
• Interprets findings
• Compensation
• Reads literary works, poetry, songs

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LINES IN THE WATER

• Who are the subjects of Lines in the Water?
• Quechua
• Fishermen
• People who inhabit the lakeshores
• Peruvians
• Lake Titicaca
• Native
• Villagers
• Subsistence farmers fishermen herders

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Lines in the Water

• What language do the subjects speak?
• Listen to a sample from the Star Wars Bar Scene
• See page 55 in Lines in the Water
• Start video at 500 minutes

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LINES IN THE WATER

• Describe the economy of the subjects of Lines in
  the Water.
• Subsistence farmers fishermen herders
• Self-sufficient with some other sources of goods
  income
• Less developed
• Less weathly, not a lot of cash (.50 cents per
  hour)
• Dependent on the environment
• Family fisheries are comparable to small
  businesses
• Exchange trade
• Barter
• market trade