Our house in the clouds [[electronic resource] ] : building a second life in the Andes of Ecuador / / Judy Blankenship
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Blankenship Judy <1941->
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Our house in the clouds [[electronic resource] ] : building a second life in the Andes of Ecuador / / Judy Blankenship
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| Pubblicazione: | Austin, : University of Texas Press, c2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 986.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Americans - Ecuador |
| Community life - Ecuador - Canar (Province) | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Canar (Ecuador : Province) Description and travel |
| Canar (Ecuador : Province) Social life and customs | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | """"where we are"" by Gerald Locklin""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One""; ""1. Planting a Tree for Plinio""; ""2. On Becoming Property Owners in Ecuador""; ""3. How Much Will All This Cost?""; ""4. Construction Begins, Poco a Poco""; ""5. "You're Going to Live Here?"""; ""6. The Lives of the Workers""; ""7. Carnival: Sins and Repentance, Abundance and Reciprocity""; ""8. Sticks and Stones, Mud and Horse Manure""; ""9. We Become Padrinos . . . Again""; ""10. Strike!""; ""11. Putting Out Fires""; ""12. Personae non Gratae in Ecuador: (or) Why We Went to Peru Last Week"" |
| ""13. On Becoming Residents of a Foreign Country: (or) "Just Go Get Married Again!"""""14. Leaving Cañar""; ""Part Two""; ""15. The Return""; ""16. On This Day a Year Ago""; ""17. Reality Sets In""; ""18. The Devil Is in the Details""; ""19. A Short History of This Place""; ""20. Moving Day""; ""21. The Wasipichana""; ""22. The Mysteries of the New House and a Mother's Visit""; ""23. Mama Michi, Curandera""; ""24. Coming Home to Cañar""; ""25. Neighbors and Fences""; ""26. La Uyanza: A Gift of Sustenance""; ""27. Life in Town""; ""28. Living in Two Worlds"" | |
| ""29. Epilogue: What on Earth Are We Doing Here?""""Acknowledgments"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Our house in the clouds |
| ISBN: | 0-292-73904-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452471903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; ; book 31.