Author: Jackson, Michael
Title: Barawa and the Ways Birds Fly in the Sky: An Ethnographic Novel
Description: Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, (1986). orig.boards. 23x15cm, 212 pp, In a lightly torn dustwrapper.. Textual map. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Account of a Kuranko chiefdom in northeastern Sierra Leone. [Barawa is the story of the succession of Kuranko chiefs & their families over a sweep of several hundred years..Jackson breaks new ground in ethnographic writing: Barawa includes personal memoir, ethnohistory, imaginative reconstruction, poetry and detailed ethnographic study.." - Publisher's description]

Keywords: Sierra Leone, Kuranko, Ethnography, Ethnology, Ethnographic, Fiction, Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnohistory