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La Zandunga

Of Fieldwork and Friendship in Southern Mexico

Beverly Newbold Chiñas

One of the best accounts of how to become an anthropologist doing fieldwork! Students will enjoy this insightful portrayal of the pleasures and pitfalls that anthropologist Beverly Chiñas experienced while studying women’s roles in the culture of the Isthmus Zapotec. The story of her long-term research, told here with honesty and grace, allows the reader to make several trips to the field in different roles: as graduate student gathering dissertation material, as young professional pursuing more sharply defined goals, and as mature researcher directing the work of assistants. The reader encounters Zapotec culture and people through the eyes of the questioning anthropologist-narrator, discovers the methods and techniques of anthropological investigation, and, instructed by the author’s commitment to her Zapotec friends, learns how friendships may transcend cultural barriers. Includes eight-page color insert.
 

$15.95 list, 178 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-680-7

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-680-1

© 1993

Table of Contents

Part I. OF FIELDWORK AND FRIENDSHIP

1. First Fieldwork: Getting Ready and Getting There

2. Beginning

3. Questions, Questions

4. La Zandunga

5. Miracles and Mangoes

6. Fieldwork and Fiestas

7. Viajeras

8. Viajeras Too

9. Dona Lucia

10. Worst of Times

11. Misfortune, Good Fortune

12. Shattered Windows, Shattered Lives

13. Que Le Vaya Bien

14. The Last Goodbye

Part II. RETURNINGS

15. Returnings, 1968–1975

16. 1981–1982

17. 1990, Impressions