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Strange Trade tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug
courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife,
mother, and drug cartel boss. A leading expert on women and
organized crime, Asale Angel-Ajani spent years interviewing these
women in Italy's notorious Rebibbia Prison,and gained unprecedented
access into the narcotics trade. Herself the daughter of a drug
trafficker, Angel-Ajani brings a wrenching, deeply personal
perspective to the account of these women's lives, and offers a
nuanced understanding of the global context within which African
women are entering the drug trade in ever-increasing numbers.
Strange Trade follows Pauline and Mary as they traverse three
continents, survive wars, poverty, and shattered families, secure
drug shipments, and commit murder. Angel-Ajani paints rich,
intimate, and profoundly surprising portraits without glamorizing,
sanitizing, or offering judgment. The result is an unvarnished
journey into a world that, until now, has remained hidden and a
glimpse into the motives that led these women to risk,and
ultimately lose,everything.
"With this book, anthropology takes its place in the world:
breaking innovative ground, creating new sensibilities, offering
academic inspiration to a crisis."--Carolyn Nordstrom, professor of
anthropology, University of Notre Dame "Engaged Observer includes
rich ethnographic insights into the personal and social aspects of
suffering and represents a significant contribution to debates on
anthropological ethics and the place of advocacy in
scholarship."--Richard A. Wilson, author of The Politics of Truth
and Reconciliation in South Africa "This engaging and compelling
volume uses a wide range of case studies to suggest ways that
anthropologists and other types of observers can be politically,
emotionally, and personally engaged with the work they carry
out."--Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,
University of Oregon Anthropology has long been associated with an
ethos of "engagement." The field's core methods and practices
involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and
their study participants, giving major research topics in the field
a distinctively human face. Can research findings be authentic and
objective? Are anthropologists able to use their data to aid the
participants of their study, and is that aid always welcome? In
Engaged Observer, Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani bring
together an international array of scholars who have been embedded
in some of the most conflict-ridden and dangerous zones in the
world to reflect the role and responsibility of anthropological
inquiry. They explore issues of truth and objectivity, the role of
the academic, the politics of memory, and the impact of race,
gender, and social position on the research process. Through
ethnographic case studies, they offer models for conducting engaged
research and illustrate the contradictions and challenges of doing
so. Victoria Sanford is an associate professor of anthropology at
Lehman College, City University of New York. Asale Angel-Ajani is
and assistant professor in the Gallatin School at New York
University.
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