Description
Book SynopsisUtilizing 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.
Trade Review[The book] will undoubtedly prove to be an exceptionally valuable resource for those scholars researching the still poorly udnerstood peoples of Central America's Caribbean shore, and it should attract attention among anthropologists working in similar frontier contexts who might be looking for insightful comparative materials. Finally, it is also a sensitive and rather personal account of an anthropologist feeling his way back into a community that he left behind twenty years previously and which has changed considerably. Students wishing to get a sense of how anthropologists really experience and do fieldwork will, therefore, also find it particularly valuable. * The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
Table of Contents
- List Of 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 Five. Food and the Search for Upan
- Chapter Six. Turtle Fishermen and Others
- 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
