Required Reading

of Emerging Markets and Errant Anthropologists

Trutor and the Balloonist by Debbie Lea Wesselmann '81 (McMurnn & is another breezily readabele first novel by a Dartmouth author. As a favor to a friend,.Michelle Trutor takes on. a strange assignment: to edit the diaries of the friend's much older sister, Caroline: school teacher, a painter, an eccentric-and a suicide. Trator soon sees that she has taken on more than she bargained for, and fears what might come tumbling down if she is able to trace Caroline's true identity . Mam graceful New England landscapes, including a few of Dartmouth; plenty of action, physical, cerebral, and conversational; a bunch of likable characters; and a most challenging

Former Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade Jeffrey E. Garten '68's well-organized and clearly written The Big ten (Basic Books) should be a text for every U.S. business executive, investor, or public official who seeks a role in America's global economic or political future. Garten, now dean of the Vale School of Manageinent, identifies ten emerging markets Mexico, Brazil, Argentina. South Africa. China, Indonesia, Turkey. Poland, South Korea, and India—that together comprise a larger trading potential for us than either Western Europe or Japan.

Ever wonder what an anthropologist actually does during fieldwork? In Ms engagingly anecdotal Mad Dogs, Englishmen,and the Errant Antbropologist:Fieldwork in Malaysia (Waveland press Press) Douglas Raybeck '64, a professor at Hamilton College, reveals what went right and what went awry when he showed up in a rice paddy halfway across the world to study trarditional values and deviance in a Malay village. You'll learn some anthropology and a good deal about Malaysia along the way. But most of all you'll see behind the" scenes to why participant observation is the key method by which anthropologists build-and sometimes stumble upon—knowledge.

The brutal murder of maidenly Christie Warden by hired titan Thomas Almy had all of Hanover agog during most of the year 1892, and local media lavishly celebrated its centennial. Author Bob Richmond '57, whose professional reporter's steady hand combines with a novelist's ready imagination, now retells the grisly account once more in Deadly Suitor (Carlton Press);, with yet a feu revealing details that might not have occurred to its earlier narrators.