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"Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time. The treasure trove of vivid learning experiences and nightly ponderings she found has led to a memoir of rare value to anthropology students and academics as well as to general readers. Her experiences focus on the long-lived healing dance, known to many as the trance dance, and the intricate beliefs, artistry, and social system that support it. She describes her immersion in a creative community enlivened and kept healthy by that dance, which she calls "one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.""-- Provided by publisher. |
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Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- The Rabies Run -- Chapter 2 -- The Harvard Camp at Dobe -- Chapter 3 -- At "Toothbrush Tree" -- Chapter 4 -- You Had to Have Been There -- Chapter 5 -- A Road Trip -- Chapter 6 -- A Creative Community -- Chapter 7 -- Ju/'hoansi, Their Neighbors, and I -- Chapter 8 -- The Threads of the Sky -- Chapter 9 -- Bright Night of the Soul -- Chapter 10 -- Life in Death and Death in Life -- Epilogue -- References -- Index. |
Subject |
Biesele, Megan.
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San (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
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!Kung (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
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San (African people) -- Religion.
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!Kung (African people) -- Religion.
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Ecstatic dance -- Africa, Southern.
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Anthropologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Anthropolotists -- Africa, Southern -- Biography.
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San (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Rites et cérémonies.
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San (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Religion.
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Danse extatique -- Afrique australe.
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Anthropologues -- États-Unis -- Biographies.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists
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Anthropologists
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Ecstatic dance
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San (African people) -- Religion
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San (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies
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Southern Africa
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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Electronic books.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Biesele, Megan. Once upon a time is now New York : Berghahn Books, 2023 9781800738799 (DLC) 2023007750 |
ISBN |
9781805390664 (ebook) |
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180539066X |
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9781800738805 |
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1800738803 |
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9781800738799 (hardback) |
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9781800738812 (paperback) |
Standard No. |
UKMGB 021055505 |
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AU@ 000073886298 |
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