{"product_id":"the-art-of-memory-an-ethnographers-journey-9781469661681","title":"The Art of Memory: An Ethnographer's Journey","description":"Combining personal and family recollections with incisive accounts of academic, political, and institutional experiences, \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e offers a remarkable account of the life of one of the foremost Latin American ethnographers and a leading expert in Indigenous cultures, peoples, and cosmologies. Varese narrates the story of his journey from Italy to Peru, his formative years as an Anthropologist and the critical work he did with Amazonian communities in the 1970s, his transformation into an activist scholar, his move to Mexico and his long-standing commitment with the peoples of Oaxaca, and his life as an academic in the United States. The reader will appreciate the honesty and transparency with which Varese brings out all these experiences. This extraordinary book combines the personal, the political, and the transnational to produce a vivid account of a unique and fulfilling journey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStefano Varese is Professor Emeritus and Founding Director and continuing member of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas at the University of California Davis. He is the author of the classic study, \u003ci\u003eLa sal de los cerros\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(1968), \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eas well as \u003ci\u003eForest Indians in the Present Political Situation of Peru\u003c\/i\u003e (1972), \u003ci\u003eWitness to Sovereignty: Essays on the Indian Movement in Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(2007), and editor of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Voices of Anima Mundi: A Reappraisal\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), among other publications.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe has received awards from the Latin American Studies Association and Casa de las Americas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Randall is a poet, feminist, photographer, oral historian, and social activist. She has lived in Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, and other Latin American countries. She is the author of more than 90 books of poetry, prose, oral testimony, and memoir, including, recently, \u003ci\u003eHaydee Santamaria, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), \u003ci\u003eChe on My Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(2014), and the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eThe Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eAbout Little Charlie Lindbergh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(2014).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Editorial a Contracorriente","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377966518546,"sku":"9781469661681","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_69ecfea2-d5e0-4154-af9b-e622b33526fc.jpg?v=1728637390","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-art-of-memory-an-ethnographers-journey-9781469661681","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}