| SHORTLISTED FOR THE KAMALADEVI CHATTOPADHYAY NEW INDIA FOUNDATION BOOK PRIZE 2019 |
Praise for the book:
' This truly magnificent text is a living monument to the strength and elegance of true ethnographic work.'--Choice
'This is an extraordinary book in two senses: it is an outstanding work of scholarship and it is a highly original unconventional piece of writing... It moved me as much as anything I have read in a literary work of recent years. Living without the Dead is a masterly feat of writing and of the ethnographic imagination.'-- American Ethnologist
'Living without the Dead remains a monumental impressive and insightful work of ethnography one that could only be produced by an ethnographer of Vitebsky's evident skill self-awareness and endurance.'--International Journal of Hindu Studies
'[Vitebsky] takes us to a world most people don't know existed and whose defeat readers will mourn deeply.'--Nandini Sundar Delhi University
'A haunting and elegiac exploration of attitudes to dying death and grieving among the Sora of Odisha.'--Dilip Menon University of Witwatersrand
| SHORTLISTED FOR THE KAMALADEVI CHATTOPADHYAY NEW INDIA FOUNDATION BOOK PRIZE 2019 |
Praise for the book:
' This truly magnificent text is a living monument to the strength and elegance of true ethnographic work.'--Choice
'This is an extraordinary book in two senses: it is an outstanding work of scholarship and it is a highly original unconventional piece of writing... It moved me as much as anything I have read in a literary work of recent years. Living without the Dead is a masterly feat of writing and of the ethnographic imagination.'-- American Ethnologist
'Living without the Dead remains a monumental impressive and insightful work of ethnography one that could only be produced by an ethnographer of Vitebsky's evident skill self-awareness and endurance.'--International Journal of Hindu Studies
'[Vitebsky] takes us to a world most people don't know existed and whose defeat readers will mourn deeply.'--Nandini Sundar Delhi University
'A haunting and elegiac exploration of attitudes to dying death and grieving among the Sora of Odisha.'--Dilip Menon University of Witwatersrand
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