Tété-Michel Kpomassie
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Tete-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland -- and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures vis mere among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderful strangeness of the human species and to the surprising sympathies that bind us all. vis mindre
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The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007) — Bidragyder — 125 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Kpomassie, Tété-Michel
- Fødselsdato
- 1941
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Togo (birth)
France - Fødested
- Atoéta, Togo
- Bopæl
- Paris, France
- Erhverv
- author
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Le génial récit de voyage de Tété-Michel qui, dans les années 60, fugua à 16 ans du Togo pour le Groenland. Un voyage de près de 10 ans fait de rencontres, d’amitiés et de découvertes !
Un livre plein d’émerveillement et de surprises face aux coutumes, mœurs, habitudes alimentaires, paysages, températures rencontrées… mais aussi sur la lente perte d’identité groenlandaise face à l’acculturation danoise. Comme un livre d’anthropologue fasciné par ses rencontres, accueilli comme un prince invraisemblable dans ces glaciales contrées inhospitalières… (mere)
Un livre plein d’émerveillement et de surprises face aux coutumes, mœurs, habitudes alimentaires, paysages, températures rencontrées… mais aussi sur la lente perte d’identité groenlandaise face à l’acculturation danoise. Comme un livre d’anthropologue fasciné par ses rencontres, accueilli comme un prince invraisemblable dans ces glaciales contrées inhospitalières… (mere)
This memoir is about a young man who grew up in the former Togo dreaming of Greenland because of a book he encountered in his youth. Due to an accident involving a snake he is as pledged to a snake cult. He decides to run away to Greenland because, obviously, no snakes. He worked his way across Africa and Europe to finally fulfill his dream. He was apparently a charmer because he found helping hands along the way. His observations about nature and the peoples he meets along the way are wonderfully descriptive.… (mere)
fter an illness caused by a fall from a tree, Tété-Michel Kpomassie's father pledges him as an apprentice to the python cult priestess in Togo. Tété-Michel runs away from home in 1957 aged 16, determined to go to Greenland as a country devoid of trees and pythons. Eight years later he arrives there and explores the country looking for locals still living a traditional way of life unaffected by colonialism and modernity.
Beautifully descriptive of both Togo and Greenland and the local cultures.… (mere)
Beautifully descriptive of both Togo and Greenland and the local cultures.… (mere)
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Pleased to find this gem of ethnography and travel. Such an interesting and compelling mind, and above all story. But it is also interesting to step back and think about how most of our stories of culture are filtered through a European viewpoint first, and interesting to see that mind outside of the main narrative - though of course colonialism is present in both cases, and still doing its thing. Really enjoyed the reflections and interpretations and connections made.