Dancing Skeletons
Life and Death in West Africa
by Katherine A. Dettwyler

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• Release date: January 1, 1994
• Format: paperback, 172 pages
• Genres: anthropology, africa, school, ethnography, history, cultural, memoir, college, science
• Language: english
• Publisher: Waveland Press
• ISBN: 9780881337488 (088133748X)
• Author: Katherine A. Dettwyler

About The Book

This personal account by a biocultural anthropologist illuminates not-soon-forgotten messages involving the sobering aspects of fieldwork among malnourished children in West Africa. With nutritional anthropology at its core, Dancing Skeletons presents informal, engaging, and oftentimes dramatic stories that relate the author’s experiences conducting research on infant feeding and health in Mali.

Through fascinating vignettes and honest, vivid descriptions, Dettwyler explores such diverse topics as ethnocentrism, culture shock, population control, breastfeeding, child care, the meaning of disability and child death in different cultures, female circumcision, women’s roles in patrilineal societies, the dangers of fieldwork, and facing emotionally draining realities. Readers will laugh and cry as they meet the author’s friends and informants, follow her through a series of encounters with both peri-urban and rural Bambara culture, and struggle with her as she attempts to reconcile her very different roles as objective ethnographer, subjective friend, and mother in the field.

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