Eileen Kane

Trickster

An Anthropological Memoir

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Produktbeschreibung

"A real page turner. Kane has turned her first fieldwork experience into an engaging 'Margaret Mead meets Tony Hillerman' narrative, with vivid characters, many tricksters, and even a mysterious death." - Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 369g
• ISBN-13: 9781442601789
• ISBN-10: 1442601787
• Artikelnr.: 30575149

Autorenporträt

Eileen Kane is an applied anthropologist who established and chaired the first department of anthropology in Ireland. She is the author of Trickster.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Alice Beck Kehoe
1. Vows
2. At Home on the Range
3. The Kah'nii
4. Missing Bomb City
5. Anthropology: A Mirror for Man
6. Two Italian Towns
7. Not Worrying
8. The Tribal Council
9. Why Anthropology?
10. Crossing Boundaries
11. The Murder
12. Drawing Lessons
13. Kinship Patterns
14. Game-Playing
15. Two-Thirds of the Way
16. Who We Are
17. The Rabbit Net
18. Ethnobabble
19. Ruin...
20. ...and Reprieve
20. The Killer
21. The Mission
22. The Parting
Epilogue
Discussion Points and Exercises
References and Further Readings