Return to Laughter - Softcover
This classic of anthropological literature is a dramatic, revealing account of an Anthropologists first year in the field with a remote African tribe. Simply as a work of ethnographic interest, Return to Laughter Provides deep insights into the culture of West Africa the subtle web of STI tribal life and the power of the institution of witchcraft. However, the author's fictional approach the book STI Gives lasting appeal. She Focuses on the human dimension of anthropology, recounting her Personal Triumphs and failures and Documenting the profound changes she undergoes. As a result, her story Becomes at once universally staff and highly recognizable. She has brought` vividly to life the classic narrative of an outsider caught up and deeply Involved in an utterly alien culture.
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A vivid and dramatic account of the experiences of an American anthropologist who lived with a primitive bush tribe in Africa.
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"The first introspective account ever published of what it's like to be a field worker among a primitive people." -- Margaret Mead
"The first introspective account ever published of what it's like to be a field worker among a primitive people." -- Margaret Mead
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- PublisherWaveland Pr Inc
- ISBN 10 0881337080
- ISBN 13 9780881337082
- BindingPaperback
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