Orin Starn
Local author Orin Starn will read from and sign copies of his new book, The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal. Through the tale of “Tigergate,” Starn explores how the culture of golf and celebrity scandal reveal larger issues looming in the American landscape: issues of race and sex, scapegoating and betrayal, and the role of the sports hero. Orin Starn is a Professor and Chair of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of Nightwatch and the award-winning Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian. He is also an avid golfer with a five handicap.
Check out this video partly filmed on Durham’s own Hillandale golfcourse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVmDwmrn9Dk&feature=youtu.be
- Street:
- The Regulator Bookshop
- Additional:
- 720 9th St
- City:
- Durham ,
- Province:
- North Carolina
- Postal Code:
- 27705-4803
- Country:
- United States
