The Miskitu people of Awastara
著者
書誌事項
The Miskitu people of Awastara
（New interpretations of Latin America series）
University of Texas Press, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, 2004
- : cloth
大学図書館所蔵 全2件
注記
BIbliography: p. [289]-300
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
aEUROoeMost anthropologists who have lived among other people ...feel a periodic need to go back,aEURO writes Philip A. Dennis in the introduction to this book. aEUROoeFieldwork gives you a stake in the people themselves, a set of relationships that last the rest of your life ...and when the time is right, it is important to go back.aEURO Dennis first journeyed to Awastara, a village on the northeastern coast of Nicaragua, during 1978aEURO"1979 as a postdoctoral student. He had come to study a culture-bound syndrome in which young women are possessed by devils. In the process, he became fascinated by other aspects of Miskitu culture - turtle fishing, Miskitu Christianity, community development efforts - the whole pattern of Miskitu community life. He also formed deep friendships to carry into the future. Twenty years later he was able to return and continue his ethnographic work. Utilizing 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.
Building upon earlier work by Mary Helms, Bernard Nietschmann, Edmund Gordon, and Charles Hale, The Miskitu People of Awastara makes its own original contribution. It is the first full-length study of a coastal Miskitu community north of Puerto Cabezas, contrasting life before and after the war years of the 1980s. It will be a valuable addition to the literature on this indigenous group and should appeal to anthropologists and other social scientists, as well as all readers interested in peoples of the Caribbean coast.
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