Phil Borges          
   

Cirila was sorting seed potatoes with her grandchildren when we met. Although she doesn’t remember her age, she knows she was born in a potato field during the sowing season. She has cooked for her children and their families since the death of her husband twenty years ago. When I asked her about the hatchet hanging from her belt, she said that she uses it to collect firewood for family meals. Quechua

 

 
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