>>Bartered Brides" by Nancy Lindisfarne, available on Internet Archive
Thank you for the book tip! What an annoying book. I'm yearning to know what these people thought, talked about, ate and were doing all day. And I get page after page of linage B and lineage C and blah blah blah. Like if Nancy Tapper doesn't dare to draw many conclusio…
>>Bartered Brides" by Nancy Lindisfarne, available on Internet Archive
Thank you for the book tip! What an annoying book. I'm yearning to know what these people thought, talked about, ate and were doing all day. And I get page after page of linage B and lineage C and blah blah blah. Like if Nancy Tapper doesn't dare to draw many conclusions, so instead she delivers details details details. (But in spite of my complaints, it is too bad that there is no list of anthropology books. Or is there?)
I can contrast it to Guests of the Sheik by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, about Iraq in the 1950s. The other women were friendly to Elizabeth through offering to teach her to cook rice properly, "so your husband will not beat you". Once her female friends got the impression that her husband had actually beaten her. She denied it (in fact, a bird had fallen in her head when she slept outdoors and she screamed because she became so scared). The friends thought that was the worst lie ever and found it hilarious.
>>Bartered Brides" by Nancy Lindisfarne, available on Internet Archive
Thank you for the book tip! What an annoying book. I'm yearning to know what these people thought, talked about, ate and were doing all day. And I get page after page of linage B and lineage C and blah blah blah. Like if Nancy Tapper doesn't dare to draw many conclusions, so instead she delivers details details details. (But in spite of my complaints, it is too bad that there is no list of anthropology books. Or is there?)
I can contrast it to Guests of the Sheik by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, about Iraq in the 1950s. The other women were friendly to Elizabeth through offering to teach her to cook rice properly, "so your husband will not beat you". Once her female friends got the impression that her husband had actually beaten her. She denied it (in fact, a bird had fallen in her head when she slept outdoors and she screamed because she became so scared). The friends thought that was the worst lie ever and found it hilarious.