Reviews for Anthropology and education

The average rating for Anthropology and education based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-08-06 00:00:00 Duane Graff An odd book. I'd give some sections 1 star, and a few 4. I chose it because May Sarton--whose journals I love--writes about it in one of her books. But Bevington's journal does not have the richness of voice and imagination that Sartons' do. Bevington is an interesting list-maker: when she grasps onto an idea, she'll show how various writers and thinkers throughout time explored that idea. She has great knowledge of a lot of literature and history (apropos, given that she was a classics professor). I don't find that the title (The Journey is Everything) reflects the essence of the book. Yes, she writes about some of her travels--but there isn't much nuance of thought about what she experiences. She makes quips and includes fragments that aren't nestled in a context; so often I didn't understand why she was saying what she was saying. Her tone was sometimes snide, and if often felt like she had no sense of la bella vita--even though she had her health, money to travel, friends, etc. It seemed like she kept us, her readers, at an arm's length from her emotions and truth thoughts (odd for a "journal"). For instance, at one point she mentions "young Phillip" dies. Her son's name is Phillip, so I'm assuming that's her grandson. She mentions briefly being in mourning but drops the whole thing.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-03-07 00:00:00 Tara Hilferty Helen Bevington, PhB'26 Author From the publisher: "“What does one learn by taking a journey, any journey?” Helen Bevington asks. 'I’ve taken a shaky trip through a decade (to Russia, to the mailbox, to bed) to the end of the 1970s, about which uncomplimentary and increasingly anxious remarks were made by us all—you, me, and the media.' This is a book of journeys, to places—Russia, Hawaii, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, the South Seas, the Rhine, Australia, New Zealand, New Mexico—and to the classroom at Duke University where she was Professor of English until her retirement in 1976. Since everything is a journey, the book is concerned with travel of all kinds, in books, in memories, in people living and dead, a lighthearted search for Eden on this planet but a more serious search for survival in the troubled decade of the 1970s."