Lib., Richmond, Va.Ĭopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. It is an optional purchase for travel or anthropology collections. A more comprehensive account of Pulaar culture would also have increased the value and interest of this book. Of the many descriptions I have read of Americans adapting to African culture, Ms. Lowerre presents her work as essentially futile, and in the end her struggle seems more self-pitying than heroic. Th 1/20 Appadurai, Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. Buy a cheap copy of Under the Neem Tree book by Susan Lowerre.
Although she points out that her Peace Corps work is incidental to this story, Tidwell's book is stronger because he describes the goals and techniques of fish farming. Lowerre emphasizes her emotional life and love/hate affair with a country that depressed her and ruined her health, yet seized her imagination and gave her an adoptive Senegalese family. Tidwell and Lowerre both sought acceptance by their hosts, and their books offer insights into the difficulties and rewards of such friendships. Under the neem tree Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The Shamrock MurdersKerrie DuBrock, Under the Neem TreeSusan Lowerre. Like Mike Tidwell in The Ponds on Kalambayi ( LJ 8/90), Lowerre recounts her experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer responsible for teaching fish culture to Africans, in this case Pulaar tribespeople in Senegal. Core Financial System Requirements: Checklist for Reviewing Systems Under the.
ISBN 10: 1877946036 / ISBN 13: 9781877946035. Best match Highest price Lowest price First editions Signed copies All copies Under the Neem Tree by Lowerre, Susan Seller GridFreed LLC Published Condition New ISBN 9780295972732 Item Price 92.51. Synopsis: The author recounts her experiences living in Senegal and teaching the villagers there how to raise fish 'On the adjustment of a Peace Corps worker in northern Senegal.'.
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