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Dancing Skeletons, Life and Death in West Africa

Dancing Skeletons, Life and Death in West Africa

by Katherine Dettwyler

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 172 PAGES

A vibrant account of life in Mali, which won the Margaret Mead Award in 1995. Dettwyler, a cultural anthropologist who lived and worked among the rural poor in Mali, is an unsentimental guide to the culture -- and field of ethnography. Not a simple report, Dettwyler considers her role in the lives of the malnourished children and families she encounters.  (WAF14, $19.95)


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