Parallel worlds
An anthropologist and a writer enconter Africa, by Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7548045 |
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| Authors | Elizabeth Uchoa (Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa Santa Casa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Issue | 20-21 |
| Pages | 419-421 |
| Publication date | 1998-12-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | University of São Paulo (PUBLISHER • BR) |
| DOI | 10.11606/issn.2526-303x.v0i20-21p419-421 |
| OpenAlex | W1610237689 |
| Language | EN |
Parallel worlds is a remarkable account of a deepening encounter between multiple universes. Gottlieb, a cultural anthropologist, hose to do her fieldwork among the Beng. She and her husband, a fiction writer, decided to live for about a year in a Beng small village in the tropical rain forest of Cte d'Ivoire. The book is a memorial account of their stay among the Beng. Gottlieb and Graham reveal not only the knowledge they acquired about the Beng, but also how they captured this knowledge in sharing the Beng's daily lifes, the emotions and the problems they experiment
Art · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
| Highly cited | No |
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