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The Uncaring, Intricate World : A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-1985 /

In the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Reynolds, Pamela, 1944- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Livingston, Julie (writer of afterword.), Guyer, Jane I. (writer of afterword.), Meyers, Todd (Editor , writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumario:In the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the Tonga people to study the lasting effects of the dispossession of their land on their lives. In The Uncaring, Intricate World Reynolds shares her field diary, in which she records her efforts to study children and their labor and, by doing so, exposes the character of everyday life. More than a memoir, her diary captures the range of pleasures, difficulties, frustrations, contradictions, and grappling with ethical questions that all anthropologists experience in the field. The Uncaring, Intricate World concludes with afterwords by Jane I. Guyer and Julie Livingston, who critically reflect on its context, its meaning for today, and relevance to conducting anthropological work.--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9781478005520