Introducing Lucy Dean

I want to introduce all of you to my student, Lucy Dean, who during her short stay here in rural highland Bolivia certainly got her ethnographic feet wet.

In a mere ten days, Lucy has experienced a great deal.  LanPeru lost her luggage.  Rather than wait an unknown amount of time for it to appear (which it did, eventually) we went to buy her a change of clothes; while shopping we survived an unsuccessful robbery attempt (my shirt, doused with smelly black oil, was not so lucky).  She was then sick for two non-consecutive days out in the campo.

But she saw some cool things, did some preliminary interviews, won the hearts of small children, and was teased mercilessly in Aymara. In short, she is well on her way to being a Real Anthropologist (TM).

I hope she’ll have some time to post some of her observations here!

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