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.

Table des matières

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.

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Andrew Beatty, Andrew (Brunel University) Beatty, Beatty Andrew
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 26.02.2015
• EAN: 9781107094789
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09478-9
• Pages: 372
• Thèmes: New Departures in Anthropology; New Departures in Anthropology
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Psychologie > Psychologie théorique; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Ethnologie > Ethnologie; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social, group or collective psychology, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology & anthropology