Research Catalog

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Description

1. xviii, 228 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

1. "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.""--

Subject

1. Biesele, Megan
2. San (African people) > Rites and ceremonies
3. !Kung (African people) > Rites and ceremonies
4. San (African people) > Religion
5. !Kung (African people) > Religion
6. Ecstatic dance > Africa, Southern
7. Anthropologists > United States > Biography
8. Anthropologists
9. Ecstatic dance
10. San (African people)
11. !Kung (African people)
12. Rites and ceremonies
13. Religion
14. Southern Africa
15. United States

Genre/Form

1. Biographies.

Call number

1. Sc E 23-1072

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Biesele, Megan, author.

Title

1. Once upon a time is now : a Kalahari memoir / Megan Biesele.

Publisher

1. New York : Berghahn Books, 2023.

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2023007750

ISBN

1. 9781800738799 hardcover
2. 180073879X hardcover
3. 9781800738812 paperback
4. 1800738811 paperback
5. 9781805390664 electronic book
6. 9781800738805 electronic book

Research call number

1. Sc E 23-1072