Department of Anthropology

This book brilliantly extends subaltern reflections on suffer-ing, memory, and meaning within complex societies, in this case Sawar (or Sarwar) state, a petty principality in preinde-pendence India. The authors, who have collaborated in field research and writing over the past two ...

This paper presents, with some contextualization, excerpts of an extended interview conducted with the late professor Jack Goody in 2006 at his academic base of St. John's College, Cambridge University. The interview serves as a token memorial to his contributions to African anthropology and Ghana Studies. Information presented herein highlights Goody's early experiences in the Gold Coast, and also offers a glimpse into the broader ethnographic context under which he worked in the 1950s and 1960s in what are the present-day Upper West and Northern Regions of Ghana.