This drama explores the complex and textured fabric of rural Andean society through the microcosm of a single peasant family. Written by an anthropologist and a professor of theater, Condor Qatay is a performable script. It grew out of the author’s interest in exploring the common ground between acting and anthropology, to see what theater people and anthropologists can learn from each other, and to see whether playwriting could provide a vehicle for ethnographic description, interpretation, and analysis.