The Place of Stunted Ironwood Trees: A Year in the Lives of the Cattle-herding Himba of NamibiaA&C Black, 1 de gen. 2000 - 269 pàgines This is an intimate account of the lives of a small group of cattle herders, the Himba, who live in and around the settlement of Otutati in northwestern Namibia. The narrative chronicles the events of a single year, though within tat year are found the events of a lifetime: birth, maturation, aging, death, generosity, meanness, accomplishment and failure.Through subtle yet vivid description, the author draws the reader into a human world that appears so utterly different. However, as the leading characters' lives and perosnal qualities, their joys, hopes and anxieties unfold, the exoticism of their world fades and the experience of life rings strangely familiar. Indeed, the narrative's power lies in its finely woven depiction of the great commonality of human life and the human condition in the midst of a peculiar and foreign world. If this is an admission anthropologists are traditionally loathe to make, yet it is so; and the reader is left with a beautiful and compelling portrait of a world and a people in which the familiar and the strange freely mix and mingle.> |
Continguts
A Readers Introduction | 1 |
Map of Southern Africa | 3 |
Diagram of Otutati Village | 5 |
Living ArrangementsRelations to Wamesepa | 6 |
The People of Otutati | 9 |
The Valley Is Full of Life | 15 |
Faces in the Crowd | 25 |
Open and Close | 45 |
Reflection | 129 |
The Prophet Cometh | 134 |
To Ripen and Dry | 146 |
A Spirit Must Be Driven | 165 |
Learning the Truth | 182 |
Found and Lost | 194 |
When Words Are Spoken | 207 |
The Living and the Dead | 219 |
A Cry at Dawn | 50 |
The Forces of the Unseen | 60 |
A Woman Must Be Strong | 71 |
The Path of a Man | 94 |
Offering the Pipe | 234 |
The Road Is Filled with Dust | 257 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
The Place of Stunted Ironwood Trees: A Year in the Lives of the Cattle ... David P. Crandall Visualització de fragments - 2000 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
ancestors ancestral fire animals answered arms asked baby beast began blanket body boys bride cattle child clapping cooking Dakata Daniel dark daughter edge eyes father feet fell fence finished forward friends garden goat greeted ground Hakavona hands head heart Herero Himba homestead husband ironwood Kaokoland Karora Katanga Katere Katere's Katwerwa Kavetonwa knew Kunene River Kuwiya leaned legs lifted live livestock looked maidens maize man's Masutwa Mbuwene meat milk morning mother moved movement Mukuru Mukuva Namibia Ngambwe Ngipore Ngipore's night Nondo omiti ondundu Opuwo otjize Otutati paces patriclans Penguka porridge pulled replied returned Rikuta riverbed rose season sheep shelter side skin skirts spirit steal stepped stick stood Takame Tall theft things thought took tree turned valley Vita Vita's voice Wakamburwa walked Wamesepa Wandisa watched Watumba Watuwamo wife Windhoek woman Wombinda women words Yapura young youth Zondoka
Referències a aquest llibre
Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective Bron B Ingoldsby,Suzanna D Smith Previsualització limitada - 2006 |
Music as Instrument of Diversity and Unity: Notes on a Namibian Landscape Minette Mans Previsualització limitada - 2003 |