First Fieldwork: The Misadventures Of An Anthropologist, By Barbara Anderson

Though positive ideologies are associated with Sweden, 1868-1893 was a terribly rough time in Sweden’s history. Famine, economic hardship, and political unrest plagued the country. Through all the famine and turmoil, the Lindmark’s survived because they

Alexandra Fuller describes everything in great detail allowing the reader to feel as if the reader is with her while she goes through Africa. One example

6. In what ways does Barbara become “acculturated” to the cold and difficult daily activities of Taarnby?

My room-mate had a single story of Africa; a single story of catastrophe”. Adichie also tells how growing up in Nigeria reading only American and English children’s books made her deaf to her authentic voice. As a child, she wrote about such things as blue-eyed white children easting apples, thinking brown skin and mangos had no place in Literature. That changed as she discovered African writers.

Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Anderson was the oldest of three girls, and at the age of six became a member in the choir at the Union Baptist Church. She was greatly supported by a her dad, whom later bought a piano at the age of eight. Her dad was an ice and coal dealer for a living. With Anderson’s family unable to afford lessons, Anderson taught herself.

“Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa” is a juxtaposition of author David Sedaris’s experiences growing up in North Carolina and his friend Hugh’s experiences growing up in various places in the continent of Africa. In this satirical piece, Sedaris’s jealousy is obvious of his friend’s exotic upbringing in Africa, but Hugh experiences tragic events during his childhood in Africa, such as seeing a man hanging from a telephone pole and living apart from his family for an extended amount of time. His jealousy is used to teach readers that everyone longs for another lifestyle that is different from his own even if they have moments of danger and gloom, but people need to appreciate what they already have. Sedaris humorously describes

In a freezing class, two brilliant minds unlocked the fiery passion that is their talent one an artist the other a writer. Bringing to light a history long forgotten creating abstract thoughts arbitrary to our own. Komi Olaf the artist and Okey Ndibe the writer not only enlightening the class but also the world with each brush stroke and each word. Every creation stemming from the hands of these masters tell of issues at the heart of Africa from colonialism to existential dilemmas. Thru spoken word, hip-hop, art, music, poems and literature issues close at heart to the artists and to Africa are portrayed. This paper will focus on the art exhibit by Komi Olaf and Foreign Gods inc by Okey Ndibe as spoken by them during their discussion in the class on October 13th. Where the talks focused on the key course objectives being stereotypes, post-colonialism, youth culture, and resistance.

Simon Lewis writes a critique of Karen Blixen’s, also known from her pen name as Isak Densen, novel which is call Out of Africa. The author, Blixen, died in 1962. However, her memoir is still making waves. Simon Lewis decided to write an article that analyzes her writing in 2000, which is thirty eight years after her death. This piece of writing, by Lewis highlights Blixen’s opinions on African lifestyle; Colonialism; Farms; Authors; Literary analysis; and the subtle racism. The novel being critiqued is set in Kenya, Africa. In this article, Lewis examines colonial perspectives written by Blixen, and how they relate to the preservation management, farming, and society in the genre of pastoral. Lewis mentions that Blixen's effort advances her writing material to better sell. Her writing is manufactured by a society that is used to marketing itself to sell their lifestyle, citizens, property, and raw material.

Below is a book written by Lee D. Baker at Berkeley, specifically the University of Carolina Press, which encompasses ten chapters along with a dedication, acknowledgment’s, introduction, appendix, and bibliography. Within the introduction, Baker discusses the notion of race in the United States and the illusion of race being a “scientific fact” within the beginning of our nation’s history (Baker 1998,1). Moreover, Baker highlights the intention in writing this work, for Baker wanted to explore the relations between the changing debate on race within the realm of anthropology. By examining the association between race and anthropology, Baker is able to explain racial constructs that underwent transformation from the early 1800s-1900s. Additionally,

When you want to criticize someone don’t, life is made for mistakes and to learn from them. The only way you become more knowledgeable than others is if you make more mistakes, or if you have been through or seen more than someone else. You can never judge someone by what they look like or what they do because you haven’t stepped in their shoes.

Keith Richburg is an American reporter for the Washington Post. He felt somewhat like an alien in America due to the racism and some of the stereotyping that was going on. One example he wrote about was when the author walked out of a store and immediately being checked if he stole anything. The only suspicion the guard had was that he was black. Due to things like this, he wanted to discover his true roots back in Africa. He takes up the job of being a foreign reporter in Africa and writes an autobiography detailing his experiences there. Some of the images he paints are absolutely horrible and even painful to read about. In this essay, I will discuss some of his experiences in Africa, why the author felt a lot more of an American than an African when he left, and why the future of Africa looks bleak.

She feels very strongly about finding herself, as she hunts between the African culture too, to find her place and make a mark even if she is expected to follow the course of most women at the time; find a husband and live as a

In her 1937 memoir Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) skillfully constructs a well-written narrative that recounts the seventeen years she lived in Africa. Upon purchasing a four-thousand acre coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills, she gains “control” of the squatters and other African inhabitants of the farm. Blixen’s memoir gives a genuine account of her relationship with Kamante, Farah, and the other Kikuyu and Somali tribe members who work on her farm, along with her various safaris, encounters with animals, and other experiences while living in Africa. By her actions, Blixen appears to be the opposite of most abusive colonizers; she never admits to acting violently towards the workers and she describes herself as a kind and nurturing

In conclusion, she particularly lays out how rationale assumed a part by they way others, and even herself, see Africa and Africans. Her idea of a solitary story is created through

Bronislaw Malinowski is arguably the most influential anthropologist of the 20th century, certainly for British social anthropology. Malinowski saw himself as effecting a revolution in anthropology by rejecting the evolutionary paradigm of his predecessors and introducing functionalism, whereby institutions satisfied human biological need, as the way to understand other cultures. I argue that his lasting legacy, however, is methodological rather than theoretical. Although not the first to conduct fieldwork, his lengthy stay among the Trobriand islanders during World War 1 enabled him to study their culture and cover a wide range of topics, from economics to sexuality. He contributed to ethnography and fieldwork by living with the people he studied, getting to know them personally, participating in their activities, and conducting his research in the field has since become known as ‘participant observation’.