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Bambo Jordan

An Anthropological Narrative

 

Bruce T. Williams

 

This book, written in an engaging narrative style, explores the complex, two-sided interaction between the author and Jordan Dama, the author’s cook and friend, as they confront and learn to understand and to recognize each other. Much of the energy of the encounter occurs because of the remarkable man Jordan Dama, a cook who speaks seven languages; a man who studies and reveres the world that he knows and the world beyond his immediate reach. Bambo Jordan is a philosopher, a father, and a lover. Most of all he is a man who reaches out to readers from his little-known country in east-central Africa and welcomes us. Through the pages of this lively narrative ethnography Jordan Dama’s own words introduce us to his land and the people of Malawi. We see, firsthand, the humble and proud acceptance of a hard life in which a strong man and his family and friends find happiness and fulfillment.  
 

$169780199243259.50 list, 189 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-790-0

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-790-7

© 1994

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Table of Contents

 

Introduction
1. Getting Found
2. The End of the Earth
3. Initiation Rites
4. Introduction to Misery
5. Small Talk: Good Lessons
6. Dancing in Place
7. A Question of Style
8. A Sense of Place
9. Growing Watermelons
10. Some Joy Too
11. Playing with Prejudice
12. Final Exchanges
13. Boozing and Bossing
14. Prejudice Full Circle
15. No Chances
16. For the Children
17. In Spite of Ourselves
18. Farewell Prizes
Afterword