Candace Slater
Autor/a de Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon
Sobre l'autor
Candace Slater is Marian E. Koshland Distinguished Professor and director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.
Obres de Candace Slater
Obres associades
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- female
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 7
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 52
- Popularitat
- #307,430
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 19
Ms Slater was made to feel at home among the people she studied, and she rewarded them by consistently belittling their cultures and beliefs throughout this book. She alternately insults and condescends to village inhabitants, and fails to make blatantly obvious intercultural comparisons between the Encantado and the European Faerie tradition. On the other hand, she writes the oral folk tales with grace and poetry and elegantly links the myth cycle of the dolphins together.
As you can tell I have very mixed feelings on this book and this writer. If you buy it, read it for the information on the dolphin shapeshifters and not for the writer's deplorable attitude towards another culture.… (més)