Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 - The Rabies Run -- Chapter 2 - The Harvard Camp at Dobe -- Chapter 3 - At "Toothbrush Tree" -- Chapter 4 - You Had to Have Been There -- Chapter 5 - A Road Trip -- Chapter 6 - A Creative Community -- Chapter 7 - Ju/'hoansi, Their Neighbors, and I -- Chapter 8 - The Threads of the Sky -- Chapter 9 - Bright Night of the Soul -- Chapter 10 - Life in Death and Death in Life -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.
Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time. The treasure trove of vivid learning experiences and nightly ponderings she found has led to a memoir of rare value to anthropology students and academics as well as to general readers. Her experiences focus on the long-lived healing dance, known to many as the trance dance, and the intricate beliefs, artistry, and social system that support it. She describes her immersion in a creative community enlivened and kept healthy by that dance, which she calls "one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Silence and Other Misunderstandings -- Part I. Warfare and Conflict Resolution -- Chapter 2. Visions of Conflist, Conflicts of Vision Among Contemporary Dene Tha -- Chapter 3. Warfare Among the Hunters And Fishermen of Western Siberia -- Chapter 4. Homicide and Agression Among the Agta of Eastern Luzon, The Philippines, 1910-1985 -- Chapter 5. Conflict Management in a Modern Inuit Community -- Chapter 6. Wars and Chiefs Among the Samoyeds and Ugrians of Western Siberia -- Chapter 7. Ritual Violence Among the Peoples of Northeastern Siberia -- Chapter 8. Patterns of War and Peace Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers -- Part II. Resistance, Identity, and the State -- Chapter 9. The Concept of an International Ethnoecological Refuge -- Chapter 10. Aboriginal Responses to Mining in Australia -- Chapter 11. Political Movement, Legal Reformation, and Transformation of Ainu Identity -- Chapter 12. Tracking the "Wild Tungus" in Taimyr -- Chapter 13. Marginality with a Difference, Or How the Huaorani Preserve Their Sharing Relations and Naturalize Outside Powers -- Part III. Ecology, Demography and Market Issues -- Chapter 14. "Interest in the Present" in the Nationwide Monetary Economy -- Chapter 15. Dynamics of Adaption to Market Economy Among the Ayoreode of Northwest Paraguay -- Chapter 16. Can Hunter-Gatherers Live In Tropical Rain Forests? -- Chapter 17. The Ju'/hoansi San Under Two States -- Chapter 18. Russia's Northern Indigenous People -- Part IV. Gender and Representations -- Chapter 19. Gender Role Transformation Among Australian Aborigines -- Chapter 20. Names That Escape the State -- Chapter 21. Central African Government's and International NGOs' Perceptions of Baka Pygmy Development.
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Klappentext: Sharing of knowledge is one principle of TUCSIN. Therefore 19 scientists and 2 writers from USA, Canada, Germany, South Africa and Namibia made the effort to report on their past and present activities in Namibia. The articles span a time frame of more than 10 million years and cover a large spectrum of subjects. Issues concerning the whole country: Migration in Namibia; Examples of development and progress; and for the first time published in Namibia: the chronology of the Namibian rock art.
