Writer and documentary photographer Judy Blankenship is the author of "Our House in the Clouds: Building a Second Life in the Andes of Ecuador," (University of Texas Press, March 2013) and "Cañar A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador." About her first book, a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards, Dr. Michael Hamerly, Brown University, editor of Ecuadorian Studies wrote: "This superb collection of Blankenship's photographs and journal-like text creates a moving, intimate portrait of a people trying to balance the demands of the twenty-first century with the traditions that have formed their identity for centuries."

Old Friends
7

Killa Raymi Festival of the Moon
17

A House in Cañar
27

The Day of the Dead
35

La Limpieza
43

A Dinner to Honor the Dead and Us
51

The Meeting
61

Greeting the New Year
69

A Death in Cañar
109

Carnaval
121

Betrothal Cañari Style 133

Life in Cañar at Six Months 141

A Wedding
151

Mama Michi Goes to Canada
161

The Way Things Work
169

A Birth in Cañar 175



Life in Cañar at Three Months
77

Día de San Antonio
85

This Camera Pleases Me
91

The New Economy
101

We Walk the Inca Trail 187

Saying Goodbye 201

General readers will enjoy this book. . . . It will appeal to those who are curious about life in a Third World village and those who are interested in contemporary indigenous communities.