In the 1950s the colonial British government in North and South Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric damn that created Lake Kariba and dislocated nearly 60,000 indigenous residents. Three decades later, Pamela Reynolds began fieldwork with the Tonga people to study the lasting effects of the dispossession of their land on their lives. In The Uncaring, Intricate World , Reynolds shares her field diary, in which she records her efforts to study children and their labor and, by doing so, exposes the character of everyday life. More than a memoir, her diary captures the range of pleasures, difficulties, frustrations, contradictions, and the grappling with ethical questions that all anthropologists experience in the field. The Uncaring, Intricate World concludes with afterwords by Julie Livingston and Jane I. Guyer, who critically reflect on its context, meaning for today, and its relevance to conducting anthropological work.