The concept of the vertical economy was discussed in class and in the film. It discusses how it applies to the Incas. Since self-sufficiency was the ideal of the hunting lodge, family units claimed parcels of land in dissimilar bionomic niches in the rugged terrain. In this way, they achieved what anthropologists have called vertical complementarily, that is, the mightiness to produce a wide variety of crops--such as lemon, potatoes, and quinoa (a protein- racy grain)--at different altitudes for household consumption. It relates to Tambo in the kindred way, it basically allows food to be full-grown at different levels of the land. Some are grown and dramatically different levels, such as Potatoes at 4,000 meters, maize at 2,500 meters, and Coca at 800 meters. Different members of a same community were divided among different eco-systems, and thats way their human settlements were stand out into a single system. That is how they had a large population.
Tamboo is basically a diary about Julias experiences living with (and as) the Quechua for 1 year in a small village called Tambo. The book is filled with rich descriptions of the land, the people, their work and habits, the festivities, the surroundings and the life of these people, and in particular hotshot extended family with who Julia and her husband, lived, worked and played with.
Due to the closeness of the relationship amid Julia and her hosts, the book describes the characters in a way that makes you become brotherly of them. Almost as if you know them yourself. The personal lives, ways, mannerisms and problems. By the cartridge holder the book comes to an end you have had a rich brain wave into the very closed and ritual world of rural Quechua society and have shared the difficulties that Julia and her husband experienced. The most striking...
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