Margery Wolf: 3 books
by Margery Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
It’s one of the coldest winters on record in Iowa City, Iowa, with snow still on the ground. The dean of one of the colleges is missing after Thanksgiving break, but even worse, two vans full of returning students are involved in a fiery crash. Soon the media and parents are frantically calling...
Coyote's Land
A Novel Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Via time travel, Charlotte Makee, a 21st century anthropologist, meets an elderly Coast Miwok curer named Sekiak in the hills near Olompali in Marin County, California. Charlotte wishes to learn about Coast Miwok life before their society was disrupted and then destroyed by Catholic priests, Spanish...
A Thrice-Told Tale
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her research in Taiwan—a piece of fiction, anthropological...