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Journeys with Flies Hardback - 1999 - 1st Edition

by Edwin N. Wilmsen

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Combining biography, poetry, and anthropology, Wilmsen vividly portrays the intense realities of life in the Kalahari and carries the reader across space and time as events in the present trigger emotions and memories.

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From 1973 to 1994, anthropologist Edwin Wilmsen lived and worked among the Zhu, Mbanduru, and Tswana people of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. Thousands of miles from his home, immersed in what first seemed a radically different place, and operating in languages he initially did not understand, he began a record of his impressions and reflections as a complement to his scientific fieldwork. Journeys with Flies weaves together the multilayered experiences of his life among these Kalahari people, capturing at once the intellectual challenges an anthropologist faces in the field and the myriad and strange ways that unfamiliar experiences come to resonate with deeply personal thoughts and recollections.

Combining biography, poetry, and anthropology, Wilmsen vividly portrays the intense realities of life in the Kalahari and carries the reader across space and time as events in the present trigger emotions and memories. Images of apartheid, for example, evoke memories of Wilmsen's childhood in the segregated South. Poems, journal entries, and moving accounts of deepening personal relationships all intertwine as Wilmsen conveys the experiences he shares with his "subjects" in spite of vast differences in their backgrounds--extreme thirst under the desert sun, grief over the death of a child, and the constant irritation of ubiquitous flies.

"Our understanding of other peoples," he writes, "lies not in themselves or in anything that they do but in our experience of them. Experience that is lived partly in their world and partly in a shell of our world that we wear when we meet them."

Sophisticated, lyrical, and passionately written, Journeys with Flies will inspire all those who travel to places far from home.

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Persimmons tasted first in stories brought to me from China were taken back in nightmares, those lines drawn between dreams . . . fear that the quarter saved from nickels left under pillows by tooth-fairies, pennies paid for carpets hung over clotheslines and beaten on Saturdays to buy my first real red persimmon, as costly as a boy's shirt at that time, would be taken by some phantom neighbor bully while my faithful white dog stood by.

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  • Title Journeys with Flies
  • Author Edwin N. Wilmsen
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Publication date November 1, 1999
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780226900186 / 0226900185
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6 x 0.66 in (23.70 x 15.24 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Library of Congress subjects Anthropologists - United States, Anthropology - Fieldwork
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99030469
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 12/01/1999, Page 665
  • Scitech Book News, 06/01/2000, Page 8
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