The Miskitu People of Awastara Format:Paperback Benzecry discovers in his look

Benzecry discovers in his look at the fanatics who haunt the legendary Col Opera House in Buenos Aires

Other selections take up the shocks of the election

the luminously beautiful specimins captured in the still-life of amber

In that mansion lives a family

Published: 04/23/2014

The Miskitu People of Awastara Format:Paperback Benzecry discovers in his look"Most anthropologists who have lived among other people . . . feel a periodic need to go back," writes Philip A. Dennis in the introduction to this book. "Fieldwork gives you a stake in the people themselves, a set of relationships that last the rest of your life . . . and when the time is right, it is important to go back." Dennis first journeyed to Awastara, a village on the northeastern coast of Nicaragua, during 1978 1979 as a postdoctoral