Word: andean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Street performers are everywhere, playing classical and folk tunes. Their audiences are bigger than in America and, seemingly, so is their pecuniary reward. Even the omnipresent Andean flute players of Coop fame are here, playing to a large and appreciative crowd in the subway...
...anthropology concentrator and avid guitarist (his current musical preference is South American folk, but past styles have included rock and "funky reggae"), Kirshner is writing his senior thesis on the Andean folk musicians who perform in Harvard Square...
...novel begins with what might have been a simple puzzle: three men have recently disappeared from the remote Andean village of Naccos, and Corporal Lituma and his adjutant, Tomas Carreno, want to find out what happened to them. The two protagonists are members of the Peruvian Civil Guard assigned to this village, where work is inching ahead on construction of a government-financed highway. Although the guardsmen are supposedly there as keepers of the peace, they know the mountain people regard them at best with mistrust. "To tell the truth, you have to be pretty dumb to join the Civil...
...ground to shift. The movement caused Juanita's ceremonial platform to collapse, and she literally tumbled off. Zarate had to rappel down a ravine to retrieve gold and silver statues, festooned with feathers, that were part of the traditional offering to the gods. Reinhard had scaled dozens of Andean peaks over the past 15 years searching for just such a treasure. Now he was worried that further underground movement on Mount Ampato might propel Juanita down the ravine, where she would be lost forever. "I couldn't just leave," Reinhard says. "I had it in my power to preserve...
...thought that scientists may have to acknowledge the existence of the soul. In faraway lands, even the most "ignorant" of people understand this. Scientists, on the contrary, get lost trying to find the components, without asking who provided the ingredients in the first place. For the Andean people who live where the sun kisses the morning first, this is no mystery. If we study their rich and ancient culture a bit more, we can probably solve many problems with less blood and more so-called consciousness. MONICA EICHMANN Miami...