A roman à clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the ...
... As a historical resource, the collection undertakes fresh readings of the work of well-known women anthropologists and also reclaims the writings of women of color for anthropology.
INTRODUCTION: Goethe coins a phrase -- PART ONE: CIRCULATION -- Gilgamesh's quest -- The pope's blowgun -- From the old world to the whole world -- PART TWO: TRANSLATION -- Love in the necropolis -- The afterlife of Mechthild von Magdeburg ...