Fieldwork
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781400133642 (1400133645)
Publish date: March 6th 2007
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Travel,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Religion,
Contemporary,
Asia,
Anthropology
In conclusion, I enjoyed reading this book simply because it was funny. It is NOT so much about Thai culture as about an anthropological study of Christian missionaries who finally ended up in Thailand. I NEVER would have chosen this book had I know this. It also looks at the 70s in the USA. The hip...
This book started out with a lot of promise. An American anthropologist, Martiya van der Leun, living in a remote Thai village, is tried for murder of a young Christian missionary. The narrator of this story, Mischa Berlinski (who names their main characters after themselves?), is an American ex-p...
This book started out well. The writing style was very readable without being dumbed down like a lot of popular fiction is. It contains a lot of interesting descriptions of life in Thailand. The story of Martiya was one that I was interested in and I definately wanted to keep reading to find out wha...
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