By JAMES SPICKARD, J. SHAWN LANDRES, and MEREDITH MCGUIRE (editors). New York: New York University Press. 2002, 284 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $20.00 (paper).
For me, one of the most moving accounts in post-modern anthropological ethnography is Barbara Myerhoff's study of the Orthodox Jewish community in Los Angeles. As she was undergoing chemotherapy for the breast cancer that was to kill her, Myerhoff explored the growing attraction and meaning this religious community had for her in ...