Analysis Of Shakespeare In The Bush By Laura Bohannan

Its amazing to think that our recent ancestors saw nothing wrong with burning ‘witches’ and hanging children for the crime of stealing a handkerchief while in today’s Western society it is universally accepted that these punishments are no longer acceptable. While studying AS level sociology I was struck by the way in which individuals can affect these hugely influential changes on the society around them. This concept, along with my study of Nazi Germany and Communist Russia, led me to a fascination

is old and extremely difficult to understand. When Professor Laura Bohannan, an anthropologist who had spent many fellowships in her career conducting research in East Africa, visited a tribe of people called the Tiv of West Africa, she read Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and believed the story had a very clear plot and that the understanding of the story could not be interpreted multiple ways. In Bohannan’s short story “Shakespeare in the Bush,” she

In the story Shakespeare in the Bush, author Laura Bohannan has an argument with a friend about the interpretation of Shakespeare 's literature. Her friend stated that Shakespeare was "a very English poet" and that people of other cultures could certainly misunderstand his literal meanings. The author then argues that the plots and motivations of Shakespeare 's tragic plays will always be apparent because human nature is more or less universal through out the world. She does however take into account

side has been proven wrong. When a previously held conclusion is threatened by another’s tempers can boil up. This rising of emotion was seen throughout Laura Bohannan’s Shakespeare in the Bush. Bohannan repeatedly began defending her interpretation of Hamlet the instant an elder began giving ideas that were contrasting towards her own. When Bohannan discussed how Hamlet’s uncle married his widowed mother and the elders began defending the notion she states, “I was to upset and thrown too far off-balance

Participant observation is a method of collecting information and data about a culture and is carried out by the researcher immersing themselves in the culture they observing. The researcher becomes known in the community, getting to know and understand the culture in a more intimate and detailed way than would be possible from any other approach. This is done by observing and participating in the community’s daily activities. The method is so effective because the researcher is able to directly