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Don Mitchell's new collection of short stories, set among tribal people on Bougainville Island in the late 1960s, demystifies ethnography by turning it on its head. The narrators are Nagovisi - South Pacific rainforest cultivators - and through their eyes the reader comes to know the young American anthropologist, himself struggling with his identity as a Vietnam-era American, who's come to to study their culture in a time of change. Beautifully written, evocative, and utterly original, A Red Woman was Crying takes the reader into the rich and complex internal lives of Nagovisi -- young and old, male and female, gentle and fierce -- as they grapple with predatory miners, indifferent colonial masters, missionaries, their own changing culture, their sometimes violent past, and the "other" who has come to live with them.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Red Woman Was Crying
• Author: Don Mitchell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• EAN: 9780983307242
• ISBN: 9780983307242
• ID: 07434420
• Publisher: Saddle Road Press
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. July 2013

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