Sumario: |
The Age of Development is an ethnography that gives account of several young Shipibo people’s lives, in the Ucayali basin, in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. The memories of their own youth by the elders help us to recreate what was implicated in being young in the past, and allow tracing the evolution of being young since the decade of the 1940s. All the account is crossed by those “pro-development” processes that have been implemented in the Peruvian lowlands all along this period, and by the way they have brought about radical transformations in the people’s ways of life. The Age of Development is also a practical exercise of criticism and reflection on ethnographic representation, by means of writing a piece that intends to communicate iii the complexity of Shipibo culture to a non-specialized reader, respecting scientific rigor and political relevance. To reach this goal, The Age of Development deploys several literary techniques of story-telling, chronicle and essay. This narrative strategy is designed from the review and analysis of classic ethnographic rhetoric, which are explained in the opening essay of this thesis: “Some ideas about ethnographic writing and its practical application in The Age of Development”. This opening essay is followed by more than twenty interconnected short stories, based on a ten-month ethnographic fieldwork in two Shipibo villages. In the last section I demonstrate how my account of Shipibo life covers every single aspect of those usually referred by “traditional” ethnographies. Finally I explain all the bibliographic and secondary sources that I have used in the construction of this work. |
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