One of the rare occasions where an ethnographer bares himself to reveal how he came to learn about and understand the people he studied. Since an ethnographer is the only person to witness on a people and their culture, the author writes about his findings on the Anyuak civilization and culture from the perspective of a novice learner. He prefaces the reader about his own background and writes about the person behind the observations. One of the readers of the manuscript described this as a delightful effort to humanize the rigor of academic analysis of indigenous populations so the author…mehr
One of the rare occasions where an ethnographer bares himself to reveal how he came to learn about and understand the people he studied. Since an ethnographer is the only person to witness on a people and their culture, the author writes about his findings on the Anyuak civilization and culture from the perspective of a novice learner. He prefaces the reader about his own background and writes about the person behind the observations. One of the readers of the manuscript described this as a delightful effort to humanize the rigor of academic analysis of indigenous populations so the author could share with others the remarkable experiences that led to his fascination with the Anyuak people. The memoir is both a document of past times, of nature and people; a moving description of life in the wilderness and a people's fight for human dignity. The book differs from other travel autobiographies in its poetic, clear and suggestive language that allows readers to participate in the discovery of a foreign culture and to become a friend to hitherto unknown people. It opens philosophical and spiritual dimensions and reflects on the humanity of the Anyuak, the author and the attentive reader.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Dr. Conradin Perner has worked as a professor of French literature; as an ICRC delegate in Asia, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Africa; and as a commander of peacekeeping forces in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan. After fifteen years of ethnographic research on a little-known people in the east of South Sudan, he worked as a humanitarian agent and adviser for the ICRC, UNICEF, and UNESCO and eventually as a senior peace adviser for the Swiss government in South Sudan. Dr. Perner published books and articles in the field of literature, language, ethnology, human rights, culture, and peace building (as founder of the Gurtong website). In 2011, he was given an honorary citizenship of South Sudan in recognition of his humanitarian and cultural work, namely for the role he played in the epic rescue of the so-called Lost Boys. In 2013, he received an award from the Human Rights Commission in Austin, Minnesota, United States.
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