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| Flyer for My Apprenticeship: An Intellectual Journey
About the Book
The book sits on
ego-documents, like letters, diary entries, and notes of casual conversations
in which the curiosity, temperament, and thought of the people harmonize or
clash freely with that of the researcher. Rather than cutting us off from
understanding what is strange and past, this bias is a window that initially
opens it up to us.
The last chapter
returns the reader to the ancient notion that rhetoric imitates life and nature,
because nature has assigned to every emotion a look, tone of voice, and bearing
of its own. It thereby invites readers to free themselves from the ideological
lock-in of postmodern discursivity and, like the ethnographer, heed happenings
while doing research.
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My
Apprenticeship: An Intellectual Journey
Commendations
I
have a personal reason to appreciate Karla Poewe’s wonderful book: parallel
experiences. We both remember what it was like to be shoved about as German Kriegskinder
(war-time children). We were both attracted to, and then distanced ourselves
from, Sartre’s existentialism. We explored our identities in North America and
in very different cultures – Karla as an ethnographer in Zambia, I as a
journalist in Vietnam. It requires literary and scholarly skills to do this
well. Karla has done it very well indeed.
Dr. Uwe
Siemon-Netto
Emeritus Director,
Center for Lutheran Theology and Public Life
Author of Triumph of the Absurd: A Reporter’s Love for
the Abandoned People of Vietnam
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Poewe does not
“study” humor, pain, poverty of environment, or relationships between the
sexes. She experiences them, lives them, and finds herself changed into new
forms of “becoming.”
Martha Ward
Professor of
Research of Anthropology, The University of New Orleans
Author of Nest in the Wind
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Available Thursday February 15, 2018
Amazon.com
eBook U.S. $9.99
Paperback U.S. $ 16.00
I have noticed that the eBook version looks very different on every device. This is the first time that I have tried this. It is a learning experience. So my friends and colleagues, I hope that you will enjoy the book.
With Best Wishes,
Karla Poewe
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