This book is biased, repetitive and Maggi contradicts herself througout. I don't thinks she writes effectively as an anthropologist, if she can admire and appreciate one culture so much, why and who gives her the right to deride any of the neighboring cultures? She wastes a lot of paper just by repeating what she has already said before as if trying to convince herself of those statements. And at times the reader is just confused because she makes statements and then immediately contradicts them. She's just another tourist in awe of an exotic culture who picked up some of the language while she visited.