Chapter Six: A Dinner to Honor the Dead, and Us

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter One. Old Friends 7
6. Chapter Two: Killa Raymi: Festival of the Moon 17
7. Chapter Three: A House in Cañar 27
8. Chapter Four: The Day of the Dead 35
9. Chapter Five: La Limpieza 43
10. Chapter Six: A Dinner to Honor the Dead, and Us 51
11. Chapter Seven: The Meeting 61
12. Chapter Eight: Greeting the New Year 69
13. Chapter Nine: Life in Cañar at Three Months 77
14. Chapter Ten: Día de San Antonio 85
15. Chapter Eleven: This Camera Pleases Me 91
16. Chapter Twelve: The New Economy 101
17. Chapter Thirteen: A Death in Cañar 109
18. Chapter Fourteen: Carnaval 121
19. Chapter Fifteen: Betrothal, Cañari Style 133
20. Chapter Sixteen: Life in Cañar at Six Months 141
21. Chapter Seventeen: A Wedding 151
22. Chapter Eighteen: Mama Michi Goes to Canada 161
23. Chapter Nineteen: The Way Things Work 169
24. Chapter Twenty: A Birth in Cañar 175
25. Chapter Twenty-One: We Walk the Inca Trail 187
26. Chapter Twenty-Two: Saying Good-bye 201