骡子与人

简介

Mules and Men appeared in 1935 with a preface by Franz Boas, who saw its merit in Hurston’s having entered the everyday life of Southern Black people as one of them. The first part gathers folktales – “lies”, as the tellers called them – about God, the Devil, animals and the trickster John and his master, which Hurston heard on porches in Eatonville and in a sawmill camp at Loughman; the second describes her apprenticeship with hoodoo doctors in New Orleans. Unlike most ethnographies of the time, the book keeps the narrators’ voices and dialect and shows the collector herself at work. Long read mainly as folklore, it is now also read as an early example of anthropology done from within one’s own community.

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