After the Ancestors - An Anthropologist''s Story

A gripping narrative that interweaves the story of fieldwork with the drama of life in a tribal society in extremis.

List of contents

List of illustrations; Preface; People; Prologue; 1. The statue; 2. House key; 3. Among women; 4. Blood brothers; 5. Daggers and debutants; 6. Stormy Sunday; 7. Three things that matter; 8. The making of great men; 9. A game of chess; 10. Cholera song; 11. Progress; 12. Strangers and brothers; 13. Exile and return; 14. Field work; 15. The chicken's neck; 16. Good deaths and bad deaths; 17. First family; 18. Blessing; 19. Half an egg; 20. Waiting; 21. Death of a chief; 22. Ama Jonah at bay; 23. Unravelling; 24. The ethnographer and his double; Epilogue.

About the author

Andrew Beatty teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Brunel University.

Summary

This gripping narrative is about a radically different world and the search for a common humanity that underlies cultural difference. Interweaving fieldwork with the drama of life in a tribal society in extremis, this book is essential reading for students of anthropology and the general reader alike.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Beatty, Andrew (Brunel University) Beatty, Beatty Andrew
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.2015
• EAN: 9781107094789
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09478-9
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: New Departures in Anthropology; New Departures in Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social, group or collective psychology, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology & anthropology