Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa

Name: Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa
Author: Katherine A. Dettwyler

written by Katherine A. Dettwyler (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1994, originally published 1994), 188 page(s)

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Field of Interest: Anthropology
Author: Katherine A. Dettwyler
Content Type: Ethnography
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Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Katherine A. Dettwyler
Format: Text
Original Publication Date: 1994
Page Count: 188
Publication Year: 1994
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
Place Published / Released: Long Grove, IL
Subject: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Malian, Poverty, Death, Life stages, Africans, Field work for anthropology, Malnutrition, Nutrition, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Biological Anthropology, Antropología Física, Antropologia Física, Hunger, Parent-child relationships, Human skeleton, Dancing, Africa, Gangrene, Snakes, Children, Rural areas, Parasite, Worms, Female circumcision, Men, Mosquitoes, Fieldwork, Death, Life, Nutrition, Mali, Africans, Latinos
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Biological Anthropology, Antropología Física, Antropologia Física, Hunger, Parent-child relationships, Human skeleton, Dancing, Africa, Gangrene, Snakes, Children, Rural areas, Parasite, Worms, Female circumcision, Men, Mosquitoes, Fieldwork, Death, Life, Nutrition