The Wind in a Jar

By John R. Farella

Book Overview

This is a book about anthropology and particularly about doing it among the Navajo. It is ultimately a book about knowing and thinking about people and their experiences, but at its most basic level it is a book of stories about some Navajo people, their families, and some of their experiences. To introduce these stories, the author tells us a good deal about his own experiences in his profession, anthropology. When he is talking about Navajo people we experience their humanity and his, all of it in a remarkably direct prose style. "An incredibly powerful book that is also a critique of contemporary American society and Western thought."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826314074
• ISBN13: 9780826314079
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"