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ISBN: 0292739044 0292739036 9780292739048 9780292739031 9780292745278 0292745273 Year: 2021 Publisher: Austin
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While many baby boomers are downsizing to a simpler retirement lifestyle, photographer and writer Judy Blankenship and her husband Michael Jenkins took a more challenging leap in deciding to build a house on the side of a mountain in southern Ecuador. They now live half the year in Cañar, an indigenous community they came to know in the early nineties when Blankenship taught photography there. They are the only extranjeros (outsiders) in this homely, chilly town at 10,100 feet, where every afternoon a spectacular mass of clouds rolls up from the river valley below and envelopes the town. In this absorbing memoir, Blankenship tells the interwoven stories of building their house in the clouds and strengthening their ties to the community. Although she and Michael had spent considerable time in Cañar before deciding to move there, they still had much to learn about local customs as they navigated the process of building a house with traditional materials using a local architect and craftspeople. Likewise, fulfilling their obligations as neighbors in a community based on reciprocity presented its own challenges and rewards. Blankenship writes vividly of the rituals of births, baptisms, marriages, festival days, and deaths that counterpoint her and Michael’s solitary pursuits of reading, writing, listening to opera, playing chess, and cooking. Their story will appeal to anyone contemplating a second life, as well as those seeking a deeper understanding of daily life in the developing world.
Americans --- Community life --- Blankenship, Judy, --- Canar (Ecuador : Province) --- Description and travel. --- Social life and customs. --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Yankees --- Ethnology --- McClard, Judy, --- McClard, Judy --- Cañar, Ecuador
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ISSN: 00694290 ISBN: 2713213428 9782713213427 Year: 2000 Volume: 99
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Indians of South America --- Social stratification --- Caciques (Indian leaders) --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Stratification sociale --- Caciques --- Social life and customs --- History --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Histoire --- Cuenca (Ecuador) --- Cañar (Ecuador : Province) --- Cuenca (Equateur) --- Cañar (Equateur : Province) --- Canari Indians --- Social life and customs. --- History. --- -Canari Indians --- -Indians of South America --- -Cassiques (Indian leaders) --- Indians --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Canyari Indians --- Kings and rulers --- Ethnology --- Canar (Ecuador : Province) --- -Cuenca (Ecuador) --- -History --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Cañar (Ecuador : Province) --- Cañar (Equateur : Province) --- Cañari Indians --- Cassiques (Indian leaders) --- Rambae (Ecuador) --- Cuenca, Ecuador (City) --- Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca (Ecuador) --- Cañar, Ecuador --- Cuenca (Ecuador) (Region) --- Social conditions --- Social mobility --- Social classes --- Social structure --- Miscegenation --- Ecuador --- Indians of South America - Ecuador - Cuenca - Social life and customs. --- Indians of South America - Ecuador - Canar (Province) - Social life and customs. --- Canari Indians - Social life and customs. --- Caciques (Indian leaders) - Ecuador - History.
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