Pamela Reynolds

One cool autumn day a young girl watched a drama unfold before her eyes. Because of her intervention a lifelong friendship and love developed. This love went beyond life and death. Lives were changed and barriers crossed. A respect for and communal with all living creatures were lessons learned outside of school. Stimpy was a cat who will never be forgotten by his owner Emily. After reading about his life and escapades, readers will not easily forget this heroic, lovable, mischievous, independent, friendly and loyal cat. Based on real accounts of his life it will open the readers' eyes to the real truth about cats. You will never look at an animal in the same way again.

A Stray Cat That Changed Our Family and Taught Us Many Lessons about Life and the Meaning of Family and Caring

Stimpikins

Arthur Kleinman

Veena Das

Margaret M. Lock

Mamphela Ramphele

Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. This third volume explores the ways communities "cope" with—endure, work through, break apart under, transcend—traumatic and other more insidious forms of violence, addressing the effects of violence at the level of local worlds, interpersonal relations, and individual lives. The authors highlight the complex relationship between recognition of suffering in the public sphere and experienced suffering in people's everyday lives. Rich in local detail, the book's comparative ethnographies bring out both the recalcitrance of tragedy and the meaning of healing in attempts to remake the world.

Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

Remaking a World

Reynolds (social anthropology, U. of Cape Town) focuses on children as clients of healers and as healers in training among the Zezuru, examining the use of medicinal plants, dreams, and ritual in healing practices, and traditional Zezuru concepts of illness, trauma, and evil. She explains the role o

Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe

Cognition and Society in South Africa

Childhood in Crossroads

The exciting new book, The Princess and The Queen explores the huge but ignored problems in the mother-in-law daughter-in-law relationship which plays havoc within the family.

PRINCESS & THE QUEEN

Sandra Burman

Thirty-three contributions thoroughly address the history of being a child in America. After a number of historical approaches are described, articles are grouped according to chronology (from colonial the final times); articles reflect on the past, present, and future--socialization in an electronic age. The history of childhood and growing up necessarily involves a study of family relations and the roles of men and women. This is an interdisciplinary work which addresses subjects of interest to a wide professional and lay audience. Paper ed. $15. The volume's the problem for a conflicted nation like South Africa--that what they are, a nation soon will be. The 20 essays range from a study of children in prison to children's use of language in racial neighborhoods to the lives of way Jewish, Indian and Afrikaner children grow up. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Contexts of Childhood in South Africa

Growing Up in a Divided Society

In the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the Tonga people to study the lasting effects of the dispossession of their land on their lives. In The Uncaring, Intricate World Reynolds shares her field diary, in which she records her efforts to study children and their labor and, by doing so, exposes the character of everyday life. More than a memoir, her diary captures the range of pleasures, difficulties, frustrations, contradictions, and grappling with ethical questions that all anthropologists experience in the field. The Uncaring, Intricate World concludes with afterwords by Jane I. Guyer and Julie Livingston, who critically reflect on its context, its meaning for today, and relevance to conducting anthropological work.

Pamela Reynolds

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