Renato Rosaldo

The Day of Shelly's Death

The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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

Autorenporträt

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."

Inhaltsangabe

List of Poems vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Foreword / Jean Franco xv
I. The Day of Shelly's Death 1
Notes on Poetry and Ethnography 101
II. Grief and a Headhunter's Rage 115
Index 139