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A 6 page overview of Jody Glittenberg’s “To the Mountain and Back: The Mysteries of Guatemalan Highland Family Life” and Dennis Werner’s “Amazon Journey”. These books illustrate one chapter of the evolution anthropological research has experienced over the years. These works provide a qualitative rather than a quantitative view of
culture, a view that is valuable in itself but one which is characterized by certain inadequacies and shortcomings. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPlitMnt.rtf
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The anthropological approach has undergone considerable evolution through the years. Jody Glittenbergs "To the Mountain and Back: The Mysteries of Guatemalan Highland Family Life"
and Dennis Werners "Amazon Journey" illustrate one chapter of that evolution. These works provide a qualitative rather than a quantitative view of culture, a view that is valuable in
itself but one which is characterized by certain inadequacies and shortcomings. Jody Glittenbergs "To the Mountain and Back: The Mysteries of Guatemalan Highland
Family Life" recounts her experiences in highland Guatemala as a nurse and anthropologist during three separate visits to the country. During the first of these visits Glittenberg was employed
in the Behrhorst Hospital. Her subsequent visit to the country was spent in the highlands in the town of Cakchiquel Mayan, Patzun and in the Ladino town of Zaragoza.
Glittenbergs third and final visit to Guatemala was conducted in 1974 after the landscape, the towns, and the people had been literally ripped apart by the great earthquake.
In each of these visits Glittenberg witnessed firsthand the many problems the people of Guatemala were forced to endure, the poverty and the oppression, the terror and the overwhelming sense
of helplessness which sometimes overtook them. Dennis Werners "Amazon Journey" provides another anthropological view of South America. This time this
view focuses on the Kayapo and Mekranoti Indians, however. These were the peoples whom Werner lived among in the midst of the Amazon jungle for a period spanning approximately
a year. Werner provides insight into lifeways which for most cultures are all but extinct, insight into such practices as hunting and gathering in the rugged undeveloped expanses of
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