>Her insights into a primitive (sic) society is worth more than that of the vast majority of anthropologists, for one simple reason: Helena was there for real,

>Her insights into a primitive (sic) society is worth more than that of the vast majority of anthropologists, for one simple reason: Helena was there for real, as a member of those societies. She didn't only study stone age life. She lived it. This reminded me of Zora Neale Hurston, who had taken a similar approach when studying the history and practice of voodoo in Haiti and Jamaica. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/claiming-space-when-happened-when-zora-neale-hurston-studied-voodoo-haiti/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/claimin...