A vulnerable young man travels to Rome in 1934 with his family for his sister's wedding. The car journey is full of mishaps and squabbles, with tempers fraying over divided attitudes towards... read more
By looking at the work and methods of thirteen C20th anthropologists, LM shows how they ended by changing how we see ourselves as much as the 'primitive' societies they were studying.
LB could turn straw into gold. Here she describes chancing across the writings of a rather obscure Greek philosopher, and the wonders and illuminations that followed. Transformative.