{"id":615,"date":"2014-04-23T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/?p=615"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T18:11:58","slug":"peace-corps-through-images-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/peace-corps-through-images-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Corps through Images: The People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below are images of local citizens taken by Peace Corps volunteers.\u00a0 Each\u00a0photograph captures local culture and customs\u00a0through the nation’s\u00a0people — as artisans, students, families,\u00a0and participants in celebrations.<\/p>\n

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“Paraguayan artisan making ‘nanduti’ (spider-web lace) in her home shop in Itagua, the center of the nanduti artistry.” Caption written by Robert Meade.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Students husking–polishing the floor with a coconut husk. At 7:00 AM–before school duties.” Caption written by Joyce Emery Johnston<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Campesino home and family.” Caption written by Robert Meade.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Snake Charmer<\/p><\/div>\n

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Celebration. Captured by Norm and Janet Heise while working for Walt Sangree, professor of anthropology. circa 1963-1965.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Below are images of local citizens taken by Peace Corps volunteers.\u00a0 Each\u00a0photograph captures local culture and customs\u00a0through the nation’s\u00a0people — as artisans, students, families,\u00a0and participants in celebrations.          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,15,524,51,62,69,72,76,77,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","category-afghanistan","category-africa","category-arts","category-blog-post","category-india","category-middleeast","category-nigeria","category-paraguay","category-philippines","category-photographs","category-southamerica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6814,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/6814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}