| The Uncaring, Intricate World: A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-1985 Contributor(s): Reynolds, Pamela (Author), Meyers, Todd (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1478004061 ISBN-13: 9781478004066 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $94.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Africa - South - General - Social Science | Children's Studies |
| Dewey: 306.096 |
| LCCN: 2018052742 |
| Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (0.90 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
