Once Upon a Time is Now - Megan Biesele

Once Upon a Time is Now

A Kalahari Memoir

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
286 Seiten
2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-879-9 (ISBN)
179,95 inkl. MwSt
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."



From the Preface:

A few years ago I finally got around to looking back into the box of personal field journals I had not opened for over forty years. I found a treasure trove. It was an overwhelming experience. So much that I had forgotten came vividly alive: I laughed, wept, and was terrified all over again at my temerity in taking on what I had taken on. To do justice to the richness of these notebooks, I realized, I would have to do a completely different sort of writing from anything I had ever done before.

Megan Biesele has taught anthropology at several universities in Texas and in South Africa. In 2023, on its fiftieth anniversary, she steps down as Director of the Kalahari Peoples Fund. KPF, a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit she co-founded in 1973 with colleagues in the Harvard Kalahari Research Group, benefits and advocates for peoples of the Kalahari. Megan lives in Austin, Texas.

List of Illustrations

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-80073-879-X / 180073879X
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-879-9 / 9781800738799
Zustand Neuware
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