Parallel worlds
Subtitle: an anthropologist and a writer encounter Africa
By: Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham.
Contributors: Graham, Philip, 1951-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Beng (African people) -- Social life and customs.; Philosophy, Beng.; Beng (African people) -- Religion.; Ethnology -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Field work.; Côte d'Ivoire -- Social life and customs.
Description: This suspenseful and moving memoir of Africa recounts the experiences of Alma Gottlieb, an anthropologist, and Philip Graham, a fiction writer, as they lived in two remote villages in the rain forest of Cote d'Ivoire. With an unusual coupling of first-person narratives, their alternate voices tell a story imbued with sweeping narrative power, humility, and gentle humor. Parallel Worlds is a unique look at Africa, anthropological fieldwork, and the artistic process.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Crown Publishers, 1993.
Includes index.