Remembering When I Was Dusty Around the Eyes

Memories from East Africa

The kitchen tent, 1998. Courtesy of the author.

Names change colors when you are dusty around the eyes. Watch a gerenuk at sunset while listening to a Walkman.

These two odd sentences are mnemonics I constructed to remind myself of chains of thought that occurred to me while learning to do anthropological fieldwork in East Africa. Searching the forests of the Semliki…