LEADER 04549nam 22006134a 450 001 9910777677403321 005 20230207224636.0 010 $a0-292-79690-0 024 7 $a10.7560/709287 035 $a(CKB)1000000000456559 035 $a(OCoLC)182530223 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10172705 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000277647 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11195754 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277647 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10241001 035 $a(PQKB)10703294 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442973 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2104 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442973 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10172705 035 $a(DE-B1597)587467 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292796904 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000456559 100 $a20040511d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCan?ar$b[electronic resource] $ea year in the highlands of Ecuador /$fJudy Blankenship 205 $alst ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-70928-5 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One. Old Friends -- $tChapter Two: Killa Raymi: Festival of the Moon -- $tChapter Three: A House in Cañar -- $tChapter Four: The Day of the Dead -- $tChapter Five: La Limpieza -- $tChapter Six: A Dinner to Honor the Dead, and Us -- $tChapter Seven: The Meeting -- $tChapter Eight: Greeting the New Year -- $tChapter Nine: Life in Cañar at Three Months -- $tChapter Ten: Día de San Antonio -- $tChapter Eleven: This Camera Pleases Me -- $tChapter Twelve: The New Economy -- $tChapter Thirteen: A Death in Cañar -- $tChapter Fourteen: Carnaval -- $tChapter Fifteen: Betrothal, Cañari Style -- $tChapter Sixteen: Life in Cañar at Six Months -- $tChapter Seventeen: A Wedding -- $tChapter Eighteen: Mama Michi Goes to Canada -- $tChapter Nineteen: The Way Things Work -- $tChapter Twenty: A Birth in Cañar -- $tChapter Twenty-One: We Walk the Inca Trail -- $tChapter Twenty-Two: Saying Good-bye 330 $aOnce isolated from the modern world in the heights of the Andean mountains, the indigenous communities of Ecuador now send migrants to New York City as readily as they celebrate festivals whose roots reach back to the pre-Columbian past. Fascinated by this blending of old and new and eager to make a record of traditional customs and rituals before they disappear entirely, photographer-journalist Judy Blankenship spent several years in Cañar, Ecuador, photographing the local people in their daily lives and conducting photography workshops to enable them to preserve their own visions of their culture. In this engaging book, Blankenship combines her sensitively observed photographs with an inviting text to tell the story of the most recent year she and her husband Michael spent living and working among the people of Cañar. Very much a personal account of a community undergoing change, Cañar documents such activities as plantings and harvests, religious processions, a traditional wedding, healing ceremonies, a death and funeral, and a home birth with a native midwife. Along the way, Blankenship describes how she and Michael went from being outsiders only warily accepted in the community to becoming neighbors and even godparents to some of the local children. She also explains how outside forces, from Ecuador's failing economy to globalization, are disrupting the traditional lifeways of the Cañari as economic migration virtually empties highland communities of young people. Blankenship's words and photographs create a moving, intimate portrait of a people trying to balance the demands of the twenty-first century with the traditions that have formed their identity for centuries. 606 $aCan?ari Indians$xRites and ceremonies 606 $aCan?ari Indians$xSocial life and customs 606 $aCan?ari Indians$vPictorial works 607 $aCan?ar (Ecuador : Province)$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aCan?ari Indians$xRites and ceremonies. 615 0$aCan?ari Indians$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aCan?ari Indians 676 $a305.898/09866/23 700 $aBlankenship$b Judy$f1941-$01493886 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777677403321 996 $aCan?ar$93811001 997 $aUNINA