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Taylor brings an ethnographer's eye, ear, and many years of
experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico
desert border. In these linked short stories, readers are taken on
a wild ride from San Diego to Nogales, into Mexican and Chicano
neighborhoods, failed spas and defunct mining towns, rambling
Native American reservations and besieged Wildlife Refuges. Along
the way they will share the conflicts, calamities, and occasional
triumph of an engaging cast of characters. While these tales treat
such familiar border themes as drug- and people-smuggling or hybrid
and conflicting cultures and identities, they do so with a literary
flair that revels in the rich diversity of border life as well as
in its ambiguity, ambivalence, irony and often unexpected humor.
Occasions of Faith An Anthropology of Irish Catholics Lawrence J.
Taylor Devotional "occasions" or experiences by Irish Catholics
form the crux of this powerful, first book-length anthropological
study of Irish Catholicism. Rich in ethnographical material,
wide-ranging archival sources, insightful cultural observations,
vivid accounts of individual experiences, and thoughtful scrutiny
of religious questions and theories illuminate twenty years of
ethnographic fieldwork. From these varied resources Lawrence Taylor
creates a memorable account of the forces that shape local forms of
Catholicism in southwest Donegal. Contemporary Ethnography 1995 320
pages 6 x 9 24 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1520-5 Paper $27.50s 18.00
World Rights Anthropology, Religion
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