Meat is for special days : pride and poverty in a village in Ecuador / Moritz Thomsen - Hardcover

9780285620001: Meat is for special days : pride and poverty in a village in Ecuador / Moritz Thomsen
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Originally published under title: Living poor; a Peace Corps chronicle by University of Washington Press, 1969. Thomsen's description of his encounter with an alien culture - the poverty-stricken farmers in the tiny Ecuadorian village of Rio Verde - is sometimes horrifying, often hilarious and always moving.

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  • PublisherLondon : Souvenir Press
  • Publication date1971
  • ISBN 10 0285620002
  • ISBN 13 9780285620001
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages314

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