Andrew Beatty

After the Ancestors

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 569g
• ISBN-13: 9781107477407
• ISBN-10: 1107477409
• Artikelnr.: 41785945

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.