Margaret Willson: 2 books
Dance Lest We All Fall Down
Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic world of street urchins, capoeiristas, drug dealers, and wise teachers. She and African Brazilian activist Rita Conceicao...
Seawomen of Iceland
Survival on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / History
The plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of ThurÃdur Einarsdóttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing captains, and that she lived from 1777 to 1863.
"Wait," anthropologist and former...