Return to Laughter

A vivid and dramatic account of the experiences of an American anthropologist who lived with a primitive bush tribe in Africa.

"Return to Laughter is a kind of modern Pilgrim's Progress." —David Riesman, from the Foreword"The first introspective account ever published of what it's like to be a field worker among a primitive people." —Margaret MeadELENORE SMITH BOWEN was popular for her anthropological novel Return to Laughter. She was concerned with exposing the ethnographic interest and experience of anthropologists involved in unfamiliar cultures.