Open AccessDeath in the Afternoon: Honduras, Hemingway, and Duncan Strong
Author(s) -
Thomas W. Cuddy
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
bulletin of the history of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2047-6930
pISSN - 1062-4740
DOI - 10.5334/bha.12203
Subject(s) - analogy , social life , history , art history , environmental ethics , philosophy , ethnology , epistemology
Archaeologist William Duncan Strong and author Ernest Hemingway areboth known for the exemplary works they produced in their respective fields. Most peopledon't know the shared similarities in the parallel lives of these two men, and thegreater social forces that shaped them. This essay takes a Hemingway-like approach tothe life of Duncan Strong, using excerpts from Strong's expedition to Honduras in 1933to draw analogy with the publicly renowned life of Ernest Hemingway