In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship Among the Songhay of Niger

by Paul Stoller and Cheryl Olkes

Book Overview

The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226775437
• ISBN13: 9780226775432
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An enthnographer enters the world of the Sorcerers.

I chanced upon this book a few years ago, and consider it a real find. Paul Stoller gives a edge-of-the-seat account of his fieldwork amoung the Songhay of Niger. Very readable, detailed, and often humerous. It raises many questions about the nature of anthropological fieldwork.