Note: The Ik are described in Colin Turnbull, The Mountain People (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972). The modern American prison, described in Jack Henry Abbott's The Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison (New York: Random House, 1981), is another example of a real, nightmarish world, where the prevailing ethic is a violent milieu of caged men at war with their keeper-guards and with themselves. A similar, less dramatic, account of prison life is told by Jean Harris in Stranger in Two Worlds (New York: MacMillian, 1987), the story of her incarceration for the killing of Dr. Herman Tarnower, the Scarsdale diet doctor.

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