Lost White Tribes: Journeys Among the Forgotten - Couverture rigide

Orizio, Riccardo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0436275058 ISBN 13 : 9780436275050

Editeur : Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

1st Printing. Good++ condition book with dust jacket. boards are clean with a slight bump to lower spine. Complete DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has light wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Over three hundred years ago the first European colonialists set foot in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to found permanent outposts of the great empires. This epic migration continued until after World War II when these tropical outposts became independent black nations, and the white colonials were forced, or chose, to return home. Some of these colonial descendants, however, had become outcasts in the poorest stratas of the society of which they were now a part. Ignored by both the former slaves and the modern privileged white immigrants, and unable to afford the long journey home, they still hold out today, hiding in remote valleys and hills, 'lost white tribes' living in poverty with the proud myth of their colonial ancestors. Forced to marry within the tribe to retain their fair-skinned purity, they are torn between the memory of past privileges and the present need to integrate into the surrounding society. The tribes investigated in this book share much besides the colour of their skin: all are decreasing in number, many are on the verge of extinction, fighting to survive in countries that alienate them because of the colour of their skin.

Revue de presse :

“Like Chatwin, Orizio has a knack of following hunches and finding good people to talk to. He also does his research and provides a history, as well as a social anthropology, of those he visits...sensitively observed, vividly told and irresistibly exotic.” –Sunday Times

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0436275058
• ISBN 13: 9780436275050
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288