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The authors believe that playwriting can provide a vehicle for ethnographic description, interpretation, and analysis. This ethnographic drama explores the complex and textured fabric of rural Andean society through the microcosm of a single peasant family. While the plotline resembles a pastoral romance, the environment and society are anything but romantic. The setting, a high potato-growing community, is very harsh. All the characters have endured tremendous deprivation and grief as their lot in life. As rural Quechua-speaking people, their options are narrow and their well-being precarious; they learn early that people sometimes must be ruthless with each other in order to survive. New opportunities involve high personal and social costs; success is rare. Nevertheless, life is not unmitigatedly grim. Even in these circumstances, resourceful human beings find humor and even beauty in their lives. Written by an anthropologist and a professor of theater, Condor Qatay is a performable script. It grew out of the authors' interest in exploring the common ground between acting and anthropology, to see what theater people and anthropologists can learn from each other, and to see whether playwriting could provide a vehicle for ethnographic description, interpretation, and analysis.
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Jason Garcia
reviewed Condor Qatay: Anthropology in Performance on May 01, 2013 Condor Qatay: Anthropology in Performance
Book Review
4 out of 5 stars to The Three Sisters, a Russian play published in 1900 by Anton Chekhov. What an introspective work, but then again, Chekov is always at the top of this particular game, that is, presenting a slice of life we know dear to our hearts. In this one, perhaps his most famous play, three sisters are stuck in a small Russian village, but year to be back in Moscow. Circumstances prevent it. If you don't know any Russian history, you might want to brush up on it before taking this one on. I struggle to recognize this book came about less than two decades before the famous Romanov family was executed. It feels so very different yet so much the same. I digress. This story is about choice. Or lack of choice. Or more appropriately denying yourself the ability to choose because you lack the confidence to do what you need to do. The three sisters, arguably quite different, might indeed by the same woman inside. Life is hard. Seeing what happens around you when someone else controls the minutes, can be difficult. And you feel stagnant. But when this happens, a writer can capture the beauty of something known as nothing. It's the little things... that make life so interesting... and this book so wonderful.
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