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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc., Prospect Heights, IL
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780881337488ISBN:088133748X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Waveland Press, Prospect Heights Illinois
Date Published: 1994
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Publisher: Waveland Press
Date Published: 1993
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Date Published: 1993
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Date Published: 1994
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Date Published: 1993
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"I recommend Dancing Skeletons to every anthropology student as an enjoyable read and an exemplified ethnographic experience, but not for any in depth study of a particular subject."
"An assignment for my medical anthropology class, this book infuriated me on so many levels that I feel compelled to write a pretty lengthy review on it.
First and foremost, my major complaint about this book is that throughout reading it, I could not figure out what the point of the book was... is it an ethnography? An autobiography? A how-to guide for surviving fieldwork? A treatise on the importance of nutrition? A work of fiction? (I know it's not, but I'll get to why I ask that later.) The schizophrenic nature of the writing left me shaking my head and throwing my hands up in frustration as I read further and further into it. Once I thought I had it figured out, she'd changed personalities again. I realize that she was writing for an undergraduate audience with the hopes of inspiring them to further explore the world of anthropology, so she likely did not wish to weigh down the book with heavy amounts of data and academic discourse. But! But! But! She IS an academician and this book IS written for academic purposes, so I expect the book to discuss things at a higher level, not the dumbed-down and pointless version she published... especially if I'm required to read this book for an academic class.
As a student of anthropology, I'm being taught to "remove my cultural biases" when encountering new and different cultural values, norms and mores than my own. I'm being taught to try and take a non-ethnocentric view on others. It's a difficult task because no one can truly remove themselves entirely from the culture in which they were raised; it's just not humanly possible. But, you do the best you can to keep your eyes and your mind open to view practices in their own cultural context. This is called cultural relativism, and as a student, I am taking this to heart. The fact that Dettwyler, a trained, educated, practicing and teaching anthropologist, has written a book in which she freely writes her negative views and opinions on the Malian people - some of them so ethnocentric, it's astounding - and doesn't apologize for her inability to separate her beliefs from her profession shocks and appalls me. Even as a student, I see the anthropological "crime" in her words and the actions she writes of, and I'm left with the bitter taste of hypocrisy in my mouth.
As someone who used to make a living writing professionally, I am dismayed and disappointed at several cardinal rules of writing being broken throughout the book, the most disturbing one being the use of whole dialogues between the author and several other characters in her book. I call them characters because that is exactly what whole bits of dialogue written like this conjure up. The conversations are written as if the author transcribed them word-for-word during their discourse, which is highly unlikely. So, I am left wondering... is this really what was said? Is Dettwyler portraying these people's words and the situations accurately as they happened? Or, is she shaping the conversations in a way that suits the point she is trying to make or to elevate the story just a bit? And, that makes me wonder just how REAL her story is... is this a work of fiction or non-fiction?
There are several other complaints and issues I have with "Dancing Skeletons" but then I fear my opinion of her book might end up being as long as the book itself. So, to end this on a positive note, I will say that if I were to find one positive aspect of the book, I would say that it's an excellent tool for teaching anthropology students what NOT to do as they further their studies in the field."
"Enjoyable enough for required reading in a class I am only mildly interested in. Seemed to skip around a lot, and had a whiny tone. Not very scientific, but offers a valuable glimpse into a culture I had only vaguely heard of."
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