A Red Woman Was Crying: Nagovisi Stories

by Don Mitchell

Don Mitchell's new collection of short stories, set among tribal people on Bougainville Island in the late 1960s, demystifies ethnography by turning it on its head. The narrators are Nagovisi - South Pacific rainforest cultivators - and through their eyes the reader comes to know the young American anthropologist, himself struggling with his identity as a Vietnam-era American, who's come to to study their culture in a time of change. Beautifully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983307245
• ISBN13: 9780983307242
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Saddle Road Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"