A red woman was crying
Subtitle: stories from Nagovisi
By: Don Mitchell
Publisher: Saddle Road Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hilo, Hawai'i
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780983307242
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Tales; Nagovisi (Papuan people); Folklore; Contes
Description: "Don Mitchell's new collection of short stories, set among tribal people on Bougainville Island in the late 1960s, demystifies ethnography by turning it on its head. The narrators are Nagovisi - South Pacific rainforest cultivators - and through their eyes the reader comes to know the young American anthropologist, himself struggling with his identity as a Vietnam-era American, who's come to to study their culture in a time of change. Beautifully written, evocative, and utterly original, A Red Woman was Crying takes the reader into the rich and complex internal lives of Nagovisi -- young and old, male and female, gentle and fierce -- as they grapple with predatory miners, indifferent colonial masters, missionaries, their own changing culture, their sometimes violent past, and the other who has come to live with them"--Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: A red woman was crying; title: Namesakes; title: Crocodile kills his father; title: I'm going to Sovele; title: Dangerous words; title: Fireflies killed her; title: How women got their decorations; title: Dog fights; title: Manape's short snake; title: I don't kill people anymore; title: Born in a stone; title: My white man; title: Tricking Poreu; title: Crocodile; title: Exploring Nagovisi; title: Glossary.