The Place of Stunted Ironwood Trees: A Year in the Lives of the Cattle-herding Himba of NamibiaThis 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.> |
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The place of stunted ironwood trees: a year in the lives of the cattle-herding Himba of Namibia
Avis d'utilisateur - Not Available - Book VerdictWith poetic nostalgia, Crandall (anthropology, Brigham Young Univ.) describes the year he spent with his wife and small daughter at Otutati, "the place of stunted ironwood trees," a Himba settlement ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
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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 |
Offering the Pipe | 234 |
The Road Is Filled with Dust | 257 |
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The place of stunted ironwood trees: a year in the lives of the cattle ... David P. Crandall Affichage d'extraits - 2000 |
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ancestors ancestral fire animals answered arms asked baby beast began blanket body boys bride catde 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 Ngambwe Ngipore Ngipore's night Nondo omiti ondundu Opuwo Otavi otjize Otutati paces 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
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Page 81 - I want to tell you something. I want to tell you what I wish I had been told when I was a maiden.
Page 130 - ... experienced a sensation and perceived its cause, an expectancy is created that the sensation will be reproduced when the object is again presented to the sense that has been affected by it. We look out for the old sensation and the cause to which we have assigned it. Thus the eye to a large extent sees, and the ear hears, and the nose smells, and the tongue tastes, and the skin feels, what they bring with them the power to see, and hear, and smell, and taste, and feel. We bring our past experiences...

