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Title: Interesting both as a travel memoir and an anthropological study
Review: I purchased this book after returning from traveling in Peru, wanting to get more of a perspective on the daily lives of villagers that I had only glimpsed from the window of a tourist van. I was mostly satisfied with the level of detail provided by the author - she is honest both about her own misconceptions and missteps, and those of the campesinos whom she lived with for one year. The narrative is told in the present tense, as though we are living through the events with her, and she tries to capture what she was thinking and feeling at each moment that significant events occur. This is a bit more detailed than your average travel book, and probably a lot less technical than your average anthropological text. For me it was a good balance.
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