Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa
" . . . a sobering, painful look at problems of a still-poor developing country that will be particularly instructive to international public health workers, nutrition educators, planners and clinical nutritionists concerned with Third World problems. It is a recommended reading."   --ECOLOGY OF FOOD AND NUTRITION 1995". . . this book has two main advantages. First, it engages the reader, because it is well written. Second, it offers a broad scope for discussion of academic and practical issues."   --JOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCES, Vol.27 1995"Katherine Dettwyler has written an easily accessible and particularly vibrant description of life in modern Mali . . . It offers a vivid portrait of Malian people and places as well as thoughtful account of the issues and problems that face anthropologists in the field."  --AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW, Vol. 38, No. 2 1995"The ongoing critique of ethnography has, happily, changed the genre, and today real people walk the pages of the best ethnographies. Dettwyler's DANCING SKELETONS is surely one of the best. The text emerges as an extended meditation on applied fieldwork as a gradual melding of people and meaning."  --AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY, Vol. 6, No. 5 1994