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Anthropologists are called "visiting strangers" in one of the fourteen essays in this multicultural book, and that term captures the essential mystery of the ethnographic how can an anthropologist drop into a small Nigerian village or a Himalayan hillside and find friendship as well as information? How can people cross language and cultural barriers? Maintain observer-observed, but also personal, relationships? It seems nearly impossible, but the beauty of ethnography is that the friendships form and deepen, as related in these essays. The writers are innovative, humanist anthropologists, not bogged down with tables, charts, and scholarly apparatus. They are at the same time among the most skilled observers and reporters of experience and the authentic voice. Simply, they transcend quantitative safety and reach far into the human realm in this magical collection of living friends. Readers will enjoy hearing of life as it is felt in several continents, in tropical and subarctic temperatures, in spirited retellings of conversations, in music, in poems, and in the writers' reflections. All the people in this book are real, and all have profound mysteries about them, beautifully wrough

Author

[edited by] Bruce Grindal, Frank Salamone

Publisher

Waveland Press, Incorporated

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780881338676

Subjects

Sociology, Anthropology, Science