Braided Worlds

Name: Braided Worlds
Price: 5.7 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780226305288

ISBN-10: 0226305287

ISBN-13: 9780226305288

Edition: 2012

Authors: Alma Gottlieb, Philip Graham

List price: $28.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $28.86

Marketplace

4 new & used from $5.70

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Philip Graham (1894–1967) was Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.



Preface


A Note to Readers



A Beng Path to Birth (September 1986-May 1987)


Alma: Of Blessings and Bad Faith


Philip: The Scrabble Champion


Alma: Two Homes and a Hospital



Censored Words (March 1990)


Philip: La Crise


Alma: Can You Teach Anthropology to a Toddler?


Philip: Our Own House of Mbari



Back in the Village (May-June 1993)


Alma: The House of Africa


Philip: Raising the Stakes


Alma: Old Agendas, New Agendas


Philip: The Adventures of Tintin


Alma: The Spirit of Grandfather Denju


Philip: One Screen Door



Casting Spells (June-July 1993)


Alma: Another Story to Confess


Philip: Anything but Invisible


Alma: Too Expensive to Die


Philip: The Waiting Fax



Things of the Heart (July-August 1993)


Alma: Mad to Be Modern


Philip: My Father's African Afterlife


Alma: The First Twelve Months of Life


Philip: Welcoming Ghosts


Alma: Amenan's Lament


Philip: "Denju, Denju"


Alma: Mystical Musical Chairs


Philip: Gifting Party


Alma: Tying Up Loose Ends


Philip: Shooting Fish



A Different Fieldwork Site (January 1994)


Alma: Converging Paths


Philip: "Ka'na Poblï¿½"


Epilogue: Cï¿½te d'Ivoire and the Beng in Crisis


A Brief Note about the Beng


Cast of Characters


Glossary


Map: Cï¿½te d'Ivoire


Map: Beng Region


Map: Amenan's Compound, 1993


Map: Cï¿½te d'Ivoire's Civil War and the Beng Region, ca. 2006


Acknowledgments


Index