Renato Rosaldo

Broschiertes Buch

The Day of Shelly's Death

The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief

Beschreibung

This deeply moving collection of "ethnographic poetry" by the renowned cultural theorist Renato Rosaldo focuses on the immediate aftermath of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981, the day after she and her family had arrived in a northern Philippines village where Shelly and Renato were to conduct fieldwork.

Autor

Renato Rosaldo is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past president of the American Ethnological Society. He is the author of Culture and Truth and Ilongot Headhunting, 1883–1974, as well as two award-winning poetry collections, Diego Luna's Insider Tips and Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la Mujer AraÑa. This is his first book of antropoesÍa or "ethnographic poetry."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780822356615
• ISBN-10: 0822356619
• Artikelnr.: 39597592