Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue Advice to a Technopelli 1
5. Chapter one. Attuning and the Development of an Approach to Fieldwork 9
6. Interlude 1 Three Images of Technopelli 19
7. Chapter two. A Necklace, a Metaphor, and the Saraguro Context 25
8. Chapter three. La Vida Matizada and Work Life in a Globalizing Society 37
9. Interlude 2: A House in Three Different Times 67
10. Chapter four. Weaving la Vida Matizada: Beadwork and Cooperatives in Saraguro Women’s Lives 73
11. Interlude 3 Los Caracoles: Travels and Transformations of Aesthetic Ideas 97
12. Chapter five. Sweet Water and Exotic Fish: Ecological Imaginations in a World of Traveling Creatures 107
13. Interlude 4 Empty Doorways and Shadowy Figures: Anthropologist as Accidental Business Consultant 127
14. Chapter six. On the Development and Value of an Anthropological Consciousness 135
15. Epilogue: A Story for a Technopelli’s Last Hour in Town 149
16. References 151
17. Index 159