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Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel (The Natural History Library)
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Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel (The Natural History Library) Paperback - 1964

by Bowen, Elenore Smith

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  • Title Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel (The Natural History Library)
  • Author Bowen, Elenore Smith
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1964-02-20
  • Bookseller's Inventory # K13C-02350
  • ISBN 9780385053129 / 0385053126
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.35 x 4.94 x 0.74 in (21.21 x 12.55 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Anthropologists, Africa, West - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the jacket flap

A vivid and dramatic account of the experiences of an American anthropologist who lived with a primitive bush tribe in Africa.

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"The first introspective account ever published of what it's like to be a field worker among a primitive people." -- Margaret Mead

About the author

ELENORE SMITH BOWEN was popular for her anthropological novel Return to Laughter. She was concerned with exposing the ethnographic interest and experience of anthropologists involved in unfamiliar cultures.

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