"A masterly combination of ethnographic reporting with personal empathy and rare poetic insight."
-- Eric Wolf
"The most thorough picture of all levels of society in modern Peru that I have ever read."
-- John Hemming, Director, Royal Geographic Society
Barbara Bode, a native of New Orleans, received her doctorate in anthropology from Tulane University. She has taught at the University of Victoria, Fordham, and the University of Rhode Island, and done field work in Chile, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Peru. She lives in New York.