Please enter your zip code for tax and shipping calculation. In every society, throughout human history, beliefs define the voids that knowledge cannot yet fill. Tradition and ritual are the functional strategies that have evolved to ensure the persistence of practices that are essential to the maintenance of particular ways of life. They demonstrate humanity's amazing capacity to innovate and adapt to a world in which change is the only long-term certainty.
People are full of ideas.
The strategies they develop persist as long as they function satisfactorily and fade away when they do not. Of course, a photograph can catch the sparkling moment, as Beckwith and Fisher repeatedly demonstrate, but their extraordinary piece of work remains firmly committed to the popular image of Africa as wildlife park and anthropological museum. Inc. For personal non-commercial use only. All rights reserved. Inc. All Rights Reserved.