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The Day of Shelly´s Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief
Renato Rosaldo
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 160 pages, 21 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: DCF; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 226.
This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippine village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished anthropologists, planned to conduct fieldwork. On October 11, Shelly died after losing her footing and falling some sixty feet from a cliff into a swollen river. Renato Rosaldo explored the relationship between bereavement and rage in his canonical essay, "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage," which first appeared in 1984 and ... Read more
This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippine village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished anthropologists, planned to conduct fieldwork. On October 11, Shelly died after losing her footing and falling some sixty feet from a cliff into a swollen river. Renato Rosaldo explored the relationship between bereavement and rage in his canonical essay, "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage," which first appeared in 1984 and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822356615
SKU
V9780822356615
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About Renato Rosaldo
Renato Rosaldo is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past president of the American Ethnological Society. He is the author of Culture and Truth and Ilongot Headhunting, 1883–1974, as well as two award-winning poetry collections, Diego Luna's Insider Tips and Prayer to ... Read more
Reviews for The Day of Shelly´s Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief
“This text is revolutionary; it presents another way, a new way of making poetry matter.”
Juan Felipe Herrera
Los Angeles Review of Books
"A sophisticated meditation on memory. It’s a meditation that takes for granted the potential of alternative modes of inquiry to investigate the past (modes that square, I should note, with his ethnographic research). . ... Read more
Juan Felipe Herrera
Los Angeles Review of Books
"A sophisticated meditation on memory. It’s a meditation that takes for granted the potential of alternative modes of inquiry to investigate the past (modes that square, I should note, with his ethnographic research). . ... Read more