Under African Sun
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.18 (635 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226016242 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
; 24 cm. , 4 p. ; 233 pages; Description: xii, 233 p. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Of plates : ill. Subjects: Alverson, Hoyt, 1942- --Alverson, Marianne --Tswana (African people) --Anthropologists --Biography --Botswana --Description and travel.. Fine paperback copy
"journal-like, refreshing, and enlightening" according to A Customer. This book is a refreshing view of an anthropologist's field work in Botswana, as told by renowned anthropologist Hoyt Alverson's wife, who was transplanted, along with her husband and her sons, to what she thought would be a different world. Her insights into life, particularly women's life, in their village and in general remind the reader that people, even in southern Africa, are afterall people.. Enjoying this book Innkeeper I am a innkeeper for our B&B. MaryAnn Alverson was a guest and we got talking about family and that my father grew up in South Africa. She mentioned she wrote a book on their family living there with their young sons. I found it on Amazon and enjoying the read and the education of living in a different culture.I reccommend it to everyone, what a perspective it gives you of how much we have in this country and take for granted.
Photos. From Publishers Weekly With her husband (a Dartmouth professor) and two young sons, Alverson (now an anti-apartheid activist and educational administrator at Dartmouth) lived in a manure-and-mud-floor hut in Botswana in the early 1970s. She debated with Tswana women (in Setswana) about traditional and Western attitudes toward marriage, religion, medicine (witch doctors vs. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. Bringing a minimum of clothing and very little else, the family worked side by side with their Tswana "age-mates," shared "efforts and smiles" and learned to drink (but not enjoy) kadi beerand Alverson started a school for children. A few years later, a new airport displaced their neighbors and swallowed up the community, so this is a valuable as well as entertaining account of disappearing African society. "white coats") and agricultu