On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 09:08, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote:
> A review of Robert Newman's books. > https://www.joaoroqueliteraryjournal.com/nonfiction-1/2019/4/5/newman-goas-shamans-and-the-fictive-dream > > > > As a child, I might have visited Miguel Colaco’s Christ Ashram in Nuvem. > It was after all, within walking distance from the Mae Dos Pobros Church, > and it was not at all unusual for Catholics in Nuvem, after mass, to drop > in at the ashram. I have a recollection of a blue sky, people crawling on > all fours, sweeping the earth with their hair, and supplicating in other > grotesque parodies of faith. These memories are almost certainly false. > They have been created in my mind by the many stories told to me, for the > ashram and its paradoxes were an enigma and a constant talking point in the > village of Nuvem. > Robert S. Newman, the American anthropologist, who has spent many years > studying Goa in its various transformations, has recently released two > volumes of his anthropological papers, which delve into aspects of Goa’s > mythologies. Newman is a much respected academic, who first visited India > in the 1960s, as part of the American Peace Corps, when still in the bloom > of Kennedy-era idealism, Americans sought to engage with the world through > learning new cultures. In the volume titled, Goan Anthropology: Festivals, > Films and Fish (Goa 1556, 2019), Newman now fills the gaps in my porous > memory about Christ Ashram. > Best wishes,Selma > COMMENT: The irrepressible woman is back on Goanet, albeit as a rep of Goaroqueliteraryjournal! LOL. She probably reads all the ongoings.....yeah all is forgiven, behave yourself. -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
