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To conserve you must transform
15 April 2005 • 4,998 words • Research
Earlier today, in Leenco Lata’s absence, I read out on his behalf the paper he prepared for this conference. In doing so I took on the role of one who in the Dinka language—thong muonyjaang—would be called agamlong, or interpreter. … more»
The view from Guava Ground
1991 • 6,150 words • Reportage & Criticism
There were storms below us in the John Crow Mountains, where the Black River meets the Rio Grande. The plane was bucking in the high… more»
The Nilotes in high steel
23 May 1997 • 1,809 words • Reportage & Criticism
For fifty years, Southern Sudan has been a locus classicus of the British tradition of social anthropology, its ethnographic literature subject to countless reassessments by… more»
The mask of beauty
1986 • 1,658 words • Reportage & Criticism
The Mende are a forest-dwelling West African people, currently numbering about a million, one of the two principal ethnic groups in what is now Sierra… more»
The anxiety of exoticism
20 October 1995 • 4,342 words • Reportage & Criticism
On a bookcase by a window in my house, catching the morning light, is an Akan wooden ritual stool from the Asante kingdom in Ghana,… more»
A nomad in a vague terrain
4 December 1997 • 3,422 words • Reportage & Criticism
If Bruce Chatwin had been portly, myopic and mouse-haired,” writes Susannah Clapp, “his life and reputation would have been quite different.” Chatwin’s death would likely… more»
