The Miskitu People of Awastara / / Philip A. Dennis.
"Most anthropologists who have lived among other people . . . feel a periodic need to go back," writes Philip A. Dennis in the introduction to this book. "Fieldwork gives you a stake in the people themselves, a set of relationships that last the rest of your life . . . and when the ti...
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Dennis, Philip A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Miskitu People of Awastara / Philip A. Dennis. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2004 1 online resource (320 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda LLILAS New Interpretations of Latin America Series Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO Who Are the Miskitu People? -- CHAPTER THREE The Village of Awastara -- CHAPTER FOUR Life in Victor and Plora's Family -- CHAPTER SIX Turtle Fishermen and Other -- CHAPTER SEVEN Working in the Plantations -- CHAPTER EIGHT School Days -- CHAPTER NINE Miskitu Christianity -- CHAPTER TEN Health and Curing -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Public Affairs and Community Development -- CHAPTER TWELVE Tibang and Concepts of Personhood -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Leaving Awastara -- MISKITU GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES CITED -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "Most anthropologists who have lived among other people . . . feel a periodic need to go back," writes Philip A. Dennis in the introduction to this book. "Fieldwork gives you a stake in the people themselves, a set of relationships that last the rest of your life . . . and when the time is right, it is important to go back." Dennis first journeyed to Awastara, a village on the northeastern coast of Nicaragua, during 1978-1979 as a postdoctoral student. He had come to study a culture-bound syndrome in which young women are possessed by devils. In the process, he became fascinated by other aspects of Miskitu culture—turtle fishing, Miskitu Christianity, community development efforts—the whole pattern of Miskitu community life. He also formed deep friendships to carry into the future. Twenty years later he was able to return and continue his ethnographic work. Utilizing ideas from recent interpretive anthropology and a vivid writing style, Dennis describes food habits, language, health practices, religious beliefs, and storytelling, inviting the reader to experience life in Awastara along with him. Building upon earlier work by Mary Helms, Bernard Nietschmann, Edmund Gordon, and Charles Hale, The Miskitu People of Awastara makes its own original contribution. It is the first full-length study of a coastal Miskitu community north of Puerto Cabezas, contrasting life before and after the war years of the 1980s. It will be a valuable addition to the literature on this indigenous group and should appeal to anthropologists and other social scientists, as well as all readers interested in peoples of the Caribbean coast. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/702806 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292761414 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292761414/original |
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