Day of Shelly's Death The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief

Name: Day of Shelly's Death The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief
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ISBN: 9780822356615

ISBN-10: 0822356619

ISBN-13: 9780822356615

Edition: 2014

Authors: Renato Rosaldo

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This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippines village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished anthropologists, planned to conduct fieldwork. On the eleventh of October, Shelly died after losing her footing and falling some sixty feet from a cliff into a swollen river. Renato Rosaldo explored the relationship between bereavement and rage in his canonical essay, "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage," which first appeared in 1984 and is reprinted here. In the poems at the heart of this…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/27/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.40" wide x 8.40" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English