Yesterday, August 24, our book club discussed Diane Wilson's Spirit Car. It's an example of "intuitive anthropology."
She recounts her visits to the places in Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska where her people, Lakota Sioux, had lived. There are many features of her good book I can commend to you, but I'll limit myself here to just one.
Wilson writes prose that is almost poetical when she describes how knowing where we're from gives us a sense of place that is indispensable if we are to have a sense of our individual identity.
She recounts her visits to the places in Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska where her people, Lakota Sioux, had lived. There are many features of her good book I can commend to you, but I'll limit myself here to just one.
Wilson writes prose that is almost poetical when she describes how knowing where we're from gives us a sense of place that is indispensable if we are to have a sense of our individual identity.
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