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Based on author Bonnie L. Hewlett's ten years of field experience in the Central African Republic, Listen, Here Is a Story Ethnographic Life Narratives from Aka and Ngandu Women of the Congo Basin offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of contemporary African women in their own words.
Rendered here are the experiences of four women who Hewlett depicts in their homes, fields, and the forest. The women vividly recall memories, childhood games, dances, folk tales, songs, and drawings from throughout their lives and provide insights and anecdotes from their experiences as children, adolescents, mothers, wives, and providers.
A vital contribution to literature on foraging and farming societies, Listen, Here Is a Story presents a new viewpoint on small-scale communities from a non-Western perspective.
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"I use the word intimate in two capacities:
First, Hewlett is present throughout the ethnography and even offers some of her personal fieldnotes from her research in the CAR. So not only do you get personal narrative from the women being interviewed, but you also get to know the researcher and her thoughts and inner dialogue as an ethnographer and as an anthropologist fieldworker far from home (plus, she's funny!).
Second, Hewlett gives a voice to two Aka and two Ngandu women by publishing their life histories using their own words (these are translated into English, of course!). This is one of the most powerful aspects of the book as it offers emic intimacy and accuracy of Ngandu and Aka cultures, specifically in reference to the major events women experience throughout their growth and development from girls as they age into women in later adulthood. The women provide insight into their childhoods, love, marriage, sex, having children, divorce and several other aspects of their lives. Because Hewlett has visited the CAR many times over several years, she is able to contextualize the local cultural, social, and environmental influences on the life courses of these women and therefore their life stories. She is also able to provide historical insight into the relationship between Aka and Ngandu to further understand differences in women's experiences.
I have read several ethnographies by various biocultural and medical anthropologists both for pleasure and for school, and I absolutely love Hewlett's work. Her writing style is enjoyable and easy to read, her methods are clear to the reader, and the topic is engaging. Further, some ethnographies lack insight into who the author is, thus the reader is unable to fully understand their perspective and possible biases or influences of the ethnographers own experiences on their work. Hewlett's presence, however, allows the reader to consider how the ethnographer's life as a woman, mother, nurse, academic, and anthropologist may influence, and in this case strengthen, her ethnographic approach.
The implications of this book are wide as it contributes to understanding women's unique experiences in small-scale, Non-Western societies, but even more widely as it shows that while being vastly diverse in cross-cultural and comparative perspectives, women's experiences are also strikingly similar.
I would recommend this book for undergraduate courses in cultural anthropology, women's studies, and African studies. I would also recommend this book for use in graduate seminars in ethnography and ethnographic methods, women's studies, cross-cultural research methods, and global development.
I hope you both enjoy and find this cross-cultural account of Aka and Ngandu women's stories across the life course, embedded in the context of their cultures and physical environments, as engaging and thought-provoking as I did."
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Listen Here is a Story Ethnographic Life Narratives from Aka and Ngandu Women of the Congo Basin Issues of GlobalizationCase Studies in Contemporary Anthropology Bonnie L Hewlett 9780199764235 Books Reviews
- I use the word intimate in two capacities
First, Hewlett is present throughout the ethnography and even offers some of her personal fieldnotes from her research in the CAR. So not only do you get personal narrative from the women being interviewed, but you also get to know the researcher and her thoughts and inner dialogue as an ethnographer and as an anthropologist fieldworker far from home (plus, she's funny!).
Second, Hewlett gives a voice to two Aka and two Ngandu women by publishing their life histories using their own words (these are translated into English, of course!). This is one of the most powerful aspects of the book as it offers emic intimacy and accuracy of Ngandu and Aka cultures, specifically in reference to the major events women experience throughout their growth and development from girls as they age into women in later adulthood. The women provide insight into their childhoods, love, marriage, sex, having children, divorce and several other aspects of their lives. Because Hewlett has visited the CAR many times over several years, she is able to contextualize the local cultural, social, and environmental influences on the life courses of these women and therefore their life stories. She is also able to provide historical insight into the relationship between Aka and Ngandu to further understand differences in women's experiences.
I have read several ethnographies by various biocultural and medical anthropologists both for pleasure and for school, and I absolutely love Hewlett's work. Her writing style is enjoyable and easy to read, her methods are clear to the reader, and the topic is engaging. Further, some ethnographies lack insight into who the author is, thus the reader is unable to fully understand their perspective and possible biases or influences of the ethnographers own experiences on their work. Hewlett's presence, however, allows the reader to consider how the ethnographer's life as a woman, mother, nurse, academic, and anthropologist may influence, and in this case strengthen, her ethnographic approach.
The implications of this book are wide as it contributes to understanding women's unique experiences in small-scale, Non-Western societies, but even more widely as it shows that while being vastly diverse in cross-cultural and comparative perspectives, women's experiences are also strikingly similar.
I would recommend this book for undergraduate courses in cultural anthropology, women's studies, and African studies. I would also recommend this book for use in graduate seminars in ethnography and ethnographic methods, women's studies, cross-cultural research methods, and global development.
I hope you both enjoy and find this cross-cultural account of Aka and Ngandu women's stories across the life course, embedded in the context of their cultures and physical environments, as engaging and thought-provoking as I did. - This is a really interesting book. It was recommended by my anthropology professor but don't let that discourage you, it's a good read.
- Interesting! Used for anthropology. Eye opener!
- School work. Got this quickly and with no fuss. No problems with the book or the sender.
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