Renato Rosaldo: 3 books

Book cover of The Day of Shelly's Death

The Day of Shelly's Death

The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief

by Renato Rosaldo
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013

This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippine village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished...
Book cover of The Chasers
by Renato Rosaldo
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019

Renato Rosaldo's new prose poetry collection shares his experiences and those of his group of twelve Mexican American Tucson High School friends known as the Chasers as they grew up, graduated, and fell out of touch. Derived from interviews with the Chasers and three other friends conducted after...
Book cover of Culture & Truth

Culture & Truth

The Remaking of Social Analysis

by Renato Rosaldo
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001

Exposing the inadequacies of old conceptions of static cultures and detached observers, the book argues instead for social science to acknowledge and celebrate diversity, narrative, emotion, and subjectivity.
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