Linguist-ethnographer John Peabody Harrington was an eccentric genius of American anthropology. It was in a summer class in 1915 that Carobeth Laird first met him, handsome and sun-tanned from the field. Her story of their seven-year marriage, written when she was in her seventies and published when she was eighty years old, is a compelling tale that has sold over 250,000 copies. In one sense a chronicle of what it meant to an anthropologist in the early twentieth century, it is also a love story, portraying the curious triangle that developed when a Chemehuevi informant entered the lives of Harrington and the young wife he drove as ruthlessly as he did himself.

Encounter with an Angry God

Biographies & Memoirs

Laird, Carobeth

Professionals & Academics

Ballantine Books

<p>Encounter With an Angry God: Recollections of My Life With John Peabody Harrington.</p>

Encounter With an Angry God: Recollections of My Life With John Peabody Harrington

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Limbo

Chandler & Sharp

<p>A seventy-nine-year-old woman, confined to a nursing home in Arizona after gall bladder surgery, tells of her struggle to retain her identity and overcome her sense of isolation, helplessness, and dehumanization</p>

Limbo: A Memoir about Life in a Nursing Home by a Survivor

Regional U.S.

Chandler & Sharp Pub

The Chemehuevis

Malki Museum Press, Morongo Indian Res

Malki Museum Pr

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