In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780226775425 (0226775429)
Publish date: June 15th 1989
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 252
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
History,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Africa,
Religion,
Biography Memoir,
Anthropology
An anthropologist’s memoir of apprenticing himself to various sorcerers in Niger in the 1970s and 80s, this book has great material to work with, but is written in a rather dry, academic style. I had the sense the author spends all his reading time immersed in academic works and perhaps hadn’t actua...
Niger.This memoir/ethnography was better than I anticipated. Stoller, an anthropologist-in-training, returns to Niger (where he was previously in the Peace Corps) to conduct field work. He winds up being mentored by a series of sorcerers. What I particularly enjoyed was his own coming of age as an a...
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