The Uncaring, Intricate World: A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-1985 by Pamel

Description: The Uncaring, Intricate World by Pamela Reynolds, Todd Meyers Anthropologist Pamela Reynolds shares her fieldwork diary from her time spent in Zimbabwes Zambezi valley during the 1980s, in which she recounts the difficulties, pleasures, and contradictions of studying the daily lives of the Tonga people three decades after their forced displacement. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New 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. Author Biography Pamela Reynolds is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town, and author of War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State. Todd Meyers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University, Shanghai. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Foreword. The Unsubstantial Territory / Todd Meyers xi Introduction 1 A Field Diary 31 Afterword. Noticing Life, Matters Arising / Jane I. Guyer 173 Afterword. Sitting Quietly, Traveling in Time / Julie Livingston 175 Glossary 179 Bibliography 185 Index 189 Review "Pamela Reynoldss ethnography-diary The Uncaring, Intricate World elegantly captures the vicissitudes of life in a setting of breathtaking sunsets, stunning moon rises, brutal gusts of night wind, and the ceaselessly annoying high pitch of the mosquitos whine. In the pages of this wonderful book she presents a complex cast of memorable characters whose life challenges underscore both the fragility and resilience of the human condition as well as the small pleasures of sipping brandy after a long day of being-in-the-world." -- Paul Stoller, author of * Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media *"The dated entries in The Uncaring, Intricate World bring into view not what is hidden and occult but what is before our eyes. Pamela Reynoldss writings are renowned for showing us that children haunt anthropological texts even as they go unacknowledged—yet this book adds an entirely new dimension to Reynoldss work by revealing the child who hides in the anthropologist." -- Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University"Reynolds engages with familiar fieldwork dilemmas – ethical, practical, methodological, social – with thoughtful candour." -- Hayley Macgregor * Times Literary Supplement *"Uncaring, Intricate World is well-structured, easy to read and intellectually stimulating. . . . It presents us with a different ethnographic form from the monograph, a deeply immersive, descriptive, everyday sense of what anthropologists do and what anthropology is and can be." -- Joshua Matanzima * Journal of Southern African Studies *"As we read, we cannot help but conclude that the books title is very appropriate. We come to know the culture and relationships of the Tonga people as extremely intricate. . . . Reynolds helps us see these intricacies, and we finish reading caring about these people." -- David W. Restrick * African Studies Quarterly *"A wonderful book to read. . . . While this diary documents happenings from nearly forty years ago, many of the observations are still relevant today. This is a vital source of insight for current students and researchers. It is beautifully written and edited and provides glimpses into a world many of us who study and write on Zimbabwe are familiar with." -- Rory Pilossof * African Studies Review * Review Quote " Uncaring, Intricate World is well-structured, easy to read and intellectually stimulating. . . . It presents us with a different ethnographic form from the monograph, a deeply immersive, descriptive, everyday sense of what anthropologists do and what anthropology is and can be." Details ISBN1478004673 Author Todd Meyers Publisher Duke University Press Series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Year 2019 ISBN-10 1478004673 ISBN-13 9781478004677 Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-1985 Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edited by Todd Meyers DEWEY 306.09679 Pages 208 Publication Date 2019-08-16 Short Title The Uncaring, Intricate World Language English UK Release Date 2019-08-16 AU Release Date 2019-08-16 NZ Release Date 2019-08-16 US Release Date 2019-08-16 Illustrations 13 illustrations Alternative 9781478004066 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131536064;

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