| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 141 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
The day of Shelly's death -- Notes on poetry and ethnography -- Grief and a headhunter's ragelist of poems -- October 11, 1981 -- Kakidugen, early September, 1981 -- Baguio, late August to early October, 1981 -- Kiangan, October 8-10, 1981 -- Mungayang, October 10, 1981 -- Mungayang, October 11, 1981 -- Lagawe, October 11, 1981 -- Night, October 11, 1981 -- The road, October 12, 1981 -- Baguio, October 12, 1981 |
| Summary |
This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippines village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished anthropologists, planned to conduct fieldwork. On the eleventh of October, Shelly died after losing her footing and falling some sixty feet from a cliff into a swollen river. Renato Rosaldo explored the relationship between bereavement and rage in his canonical essay, ""Grief and a He |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Death -- Poetry
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Ilongot (Philippine people) -- Death
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Ethnology in literature.
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POETRY -- General.
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Death
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Ethnology in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822376736 |
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0822376733 |
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