San Rafael, Camba Town is an intimate portrayal of the people and events that contribute to the fabric of life in a small, peasant community in Bolivia. In a highly readable style, the author recounts her experiences as a young Peace Corps volunteer working in this isolated community during the 1960s. Stearman begins by describing the patterns of daily activities of the individuals she came to know well as friends and neighbors. She then moves on to a firsthand account of living with the Leon family with whom she shared the challenge of working a small subsistence farm. This unusual and insightful episode provides detailed descriptions of house building, farming, the daily struggle to make ends meet. Stearman also reveals how close personal relationships with the members of this family evolved as they all worked together to develop strategies for survival. The complexities of the deceptively simple life of the peasant are made apparent in this unusual ethnographic experience. A 42-page Retrospective in this edition continues the original story.
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Wonderful insights of village life in Eastern Bolivia.,
By Marshall A. Martin (marshall@martinma.mdn.com) (West Lafayette, Indiana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: San Rafael, Camba Town: Life in a Lowland Bolivian Peasant Community (Paperback)
To understand Bolivia, you must understand its people and culture. This book provides a special insiders look at family and village life in the Eastern lowlands of Bolivia. It is the story of a simple,yet proud people as they care for each other and survive against nature, and the grinding poverty of a low income developing country. Yet the love and campassion of a young Peace Corps volunteer and her adopted community make this a story of commitment,love, and understanding across the barriers of culture, language, and economic systems. This is a must read for Peace Corps volunteers, missionaries, or other travelers into the rural communities of Latin America.
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