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The Fifth World of Forster Bennett
Vincent Crapanzano
其他書名
Portrait of a Navajo
出版U of Nebraska Press, 2003-01-01
主題Social Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
ISBN97808032643110803264313
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eZUOH0fg9PQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋It is told that the ancestors of the Navajos journeyed through four worlds to reach the fifth, or present, one. The pressing complexities and underlying wonder of their fifth world of modern reservation life are portrayed in this classic ethnographic account by Vincent Crapanzano. ø As a young, inexperienced anthropologist, Crapanzano spent a summer with a Navajo man he calls Forster Bennett. In his fifties, Bennett was raised during the early reservation years, fought in the South Pacific in the Second World War, and, like many, carried a deep but not always openly expressed resentment toward whites. Crapanzano?s honest and gritty account of his time with Bennett and Bennett's community reveals a stark portrait of the ?flat, slow quality of reservation life,? where boredom and poverty coexist with age-old sacred rituals and the varying ways that Navajos react and adjust to changes in their culture.