The place of stunted ironwood trees
Subtitle: a year in the lives of the cattle-herding Himba of Namibia
By: David P. Crandall.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Himba (African people) -- Domestic animals.; Himba (African people) -- Social life and customs.; Cattle herders -- Namibia -- Otutati.; Otutati (Namibia) -- Social life and customs.
Description: "This is an account of the lives of a small band of cattle herders, the Himba, who live in and around the settlement of Otutati in northwestern Namibia. The narrative chronicles the events of a single year, though within that year are found the events of a lifetime: birth, maturation, aging, death; generosity, meanness, accomplishment, failure.".

"The author draws the reader into a human world that appears so utterly different from our own in the first decade of the twenty-first century. However, as the leading characters' lives and personal qualities, their joys, hopes, and anxieties unfold, the exoticism of their world fades and the experience of life rings strangely familiar."--BOOK JACKET.