Listen, Here is a Story: Ethnographic Life Narratives from Aka and Ngandu Women of the Congo Basin

by Bonnie L. Hewlett

Based on author Bonnie L. Hewlett's ten years of field experience in the Central African Republic, Listen, Here Is a Ethnographic Life Narratives from Aka and Ngandu Women of the Congo Basin offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of contemporary African women in their own words.

Rendered here are the experiences of four women who Hewlett depicts in their homes, fields, and the forest. The women vividly recall memories, childhood games, dances, folk tales, songs, and drawings from throughout their lives and provide insights and anecdotes from their experiences as children, adolescents, mothers, wives, and providers.

A vital contribution to literature on foraging and farming societies, Listen, Here Is a Story presents a new viewpoint on small-scale communities from a non-Western perspective.

Genres: School, Nonfiction, Anthropology, Africa, Ethnography

272 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2012

Reviews

[Hannah Perry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for my Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class. This was interesting. I enjoyed being able to read the perspectives of these four women in their own words.

[Irene · Rating 3 out of 5]

Always good learning about different cultures.