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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Margaret Mead was a pathbreaking scholar and eminent public intellectual. I don’t understand why the author, after successfully evoking her personality and work, would have her die in childbirth at an early age — which did not happen! —as the book ends. It recalls code movies where the rebellious heroine has to die for her transgressions. A very strange choice. ( ) A tropical love triangle; erotic ethnologists; inscrutable indigenous cultures - it's a potentially steamy mix, but Lily King keeps a firm hand on the tiller as she steers this story briskly up and down the Sepik River in New Guinea. It's a compelling setting - inspired by the real 1930s romance between Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who shared their anthropological discoveries, and more, under the mosquito nets of Oceania. Euphoria is easy to read and fast paced, but I missed something of the special electricity that I had previously imagined for Mead and Bateson - even though this is not their story. In making her fiction, it may be that King has drawn focus away from some of the intensity of forbidden love and professional intimacy by creating a (sub)plot of Western greed and tribal misfortune. I liked many things about this book but it didn't quite live up to the hype for me. To be truthful this book sounded completely unappealing to me but so many people loved it that j wanted to try myself. To my surprise I really got swept up into the early part of the book. I think my real issues are with the character Fen. There were so many odd things with this guy that never seemed to be clearly resolved. It all just bugged me and took away from my overall satisfaction. I guess I wanted some POV from him all through the book to explain him a little more. Sex on the Sepik Loosely based on the life of American anthropologist Margaret Mead during her New Guinea studies of tribes on the Sepik River in New Guinea, this book was a slow read. Although it includes some parts of Mead’s life, only one other real life character makes an appearance - fictionalized “Gregory Bateson” who whose name is that old Mead’s real-life second husband, but who is her lover in the book. There is a third major character in the book - a seedy Australian who is the fictional husband. The blending of two men into one is confusing, but eventually I suspended belief and just went with it. The novel draws on the views held by skeptics, that Mead imagined and depicted various tribal rituals according to her love life at the time. rather than by objective observation. There are a couple of weird episodes that don’t ring true in Euphoria. One is that Mead (Nell in the novel) collaborates with her husband to form a grid depicting cultural norms by geographic regions. This supposed grid is used in WW2 by the allied and also by the Nazis. During the collaboration the lover (her husband in real life) muses that if they had known that WW2 was about to break out in Europe, maybe the war could have been averted. All a bit too much to take seriously. The other was the description of the threesome’s trip to Sydney pre WW2. I was born in Australia post WW2 and King’s description is way off - a Sydney of the 1970s. Yes it’s a piece of fiction, but in order to go with fiction based on historical events, the knowledgeable reader needs to be able to believe while reading. I did enjoy Simon Vance reading in an Australian accent - the lover is an Aussie. Not a bad job, Mr Vance! The book cover many, too many areas I think. Some of them are - -anthropology - transvestitism as a ritual to humiliate men - lost love - male chauvinism - hints of domestic violence - colonialism - sociology - threesomes - gender - linguistics - romance - grie - New Guinea (now Papúa New Guinea) and more. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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El antropl̤ogo Andrew Bankson ha pasado dos aǫs investigando la tribu Kiona de Nueva Guinea. Ese aislamiento voluntario, y la ausencia de descubrimientos que ayuden a avanzar en su investigacin̤, lo han llevado al extremo de planear su suicidio. La repentina aparicin̤ de dos compaęros antropl̤ogos que huyen de la violenta tribu Mumbanyo le hace reconsiderar su decisin̤. Nell y Fen - ella, controvertida y brillante; l?, atractivo y celoso- termina instaln?dose en los tam, una tribu cercana a la de Bankson, y all c?omienza la historia de un trin?gulo amoroso in extremis: Euphoria se convierte en una tensa historia sobre la competencia de egos y deseos -deseo de conocimiento o de fama ; deseo por el otro- que se desarrolla en un paisaje amenazante. Basada en un capt?ulo autn?tico de la vida de la antropl̤oga Margaret Mead, Lily King consigue reivindicar su genialidad en el campo al que dedic t̤oda su vida y trata de entender su pasin̤ a travs? de dos de las personas que amo. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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