Beschreibung:
This deeply moving collection of "ethnographic poetry" by the renowned cultural theorist Renato Rosaldo focuses on the immediate aftermath of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981, the day after she and her family had arrived in a northern Philippines village where Shelly and Renato were to conduct fieldwork.
List of Poems viiAcknowledgments xiiiForeword / Jean Franco xvI. The Day of Shelly's Death 1Notes on Poetry and Ethnography 101II. Grief and a Headhunter's Rage 115Index 139