Journeys with Flies Hardcover - 1999 - 1st Edition
by Edwin N. Wilmsen
Combining biography, poetry, and anthropology, Wilmsen vividly portrays the intense realities of life in the Kalahari and carries the reader across space and time as events in the present trigger emotions and memories.
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Persimmons tasted first in stories brought to me from China were taken back in nightmares, those lines drawn between dreams . . . fear that the quarter saved from nickels left under pillows by tooth-fairies, pennies paid for carpets hung over clotheslines and beaten on Saturdays to buy my first real red persimmon, as costly as a boy's shirt at that time, would be taken by some phantom neighbor bully while my faithful white dog stood by.
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- Title Journeys with Flies
- Author Edwin N. Wilmsen
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 168
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date November 1, 1999
- ISBN 9780226900186 / 0226900185
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 9.33 x 6 x 0.66 in (23.70 x 15.24 x 1.68 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: African
- Library of Congress subjects Anthropologists - United States, Anthropology - Fieldwork
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99030469
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Booklist, 12/01/1999, Page 665
- Scitech Book News, 06/01/2000, Page 8
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University of Chicago Press | 01 November 1999
Hardcover | 168 pages
From 1973 to 1994, anthropologist Edwin Wilmsen lived and worked among the Zhu, Mbanduru, and Tswana people of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. Thousands of miles from his home, immersed in what first seemed a radically different place, and operating in languages he initially did not understand, he began a record of his impressions and reflections as a complement to his scientific fieldwork. Journeys with Flies weaves together the multilayered experiences of his life among these Kalahari people, capturing at once the intellectual challenges an anthropologist faces in the field and the myriad and strange ways that unfamiliar experiences come to resonate with deeply personal thoughts and recollections.
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