Is There a Light in My Eyes

The ethnographer in the field frequently becomes entangled in the lives of others in ways that are unpredictable and often emotionally shattering. In this montage of scenes, involving a British expatriate family, I present an account of a child, solitary and emotionally disturbed, raised in an environment of ethnic and sexual confusion, cast adrift in an African world. The story is a metaphor, a microcosm of a decaying colonialism, and in the wake of this decay, the emergence of a peculiar form of evil

Archaeology · Colonialism · Confusion · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Expatriate · Field (mathematics) · Linguistics · Metaphor · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics