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...offers a fascinating study of life in the Guatemalan highlands. Dennis Werner's Amazon Journey (1990) describes the author's year-long study of life among Brazil's Mekranoti Indians. Both texts are intriguing, offering the reader insight into other cultures, other social paradigms. The following examination of these texts examines the orientation of each anthropologist toward field work and how these studies were conducted.
Werner is straightforward in his preface as to why he wrote his text. One of the reasons was to write an informative text for budding anthropology students. Therefore, his text tries to convey what it is like to be set down, "uninvited and ignorant, among a foreign people and the sense of satisfaction in gradually growing to understand them" (ix). Similarly, Glittenberg conveys her trepidation as a "budding anthropologist" while on her first fieldtrip to Guatemala (9). In so doing, both texts are very informative about the processes involved in fieldwork anthropology.
Glittenberg's original perspective on arriving in Guatemala is more that of a nurse than...