I was overseas last week and did a lot of reading without any posting, hence the flurry now that I’ve returned to my usual internet connection. Of the books I powered through, Euphoria was definitely the winner, but that’s a little bit like being the smartest horse. Euphoria is the story of three anthropologists–Nel, Fen, and Bankston–in the 1930s, working with tribes along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. It is loosely based on the story of real-life anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead was a cultural anthropologist, […]