Fieldwork

I whipped through this novel about an American anthropologist, Martina van der Leun, sentenced to 50 years in jail for a murder in Thailand without leaving my couch all day except to get more snacks. I'm sure my anthropologist daughter will have some scholarly quibbles with it, but I was riveted by the rites and rituals of both the fictional tribe in the novel and the academics and missionaries hellbent on studying or converting them.

~Nikki Hardin

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