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Journeys to the edge : in the footsteps of an anthropologist / Peter M. Gardner.
Penn Museum Library GN21.G37 A3 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gardner, Peter M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardner, Peter M.
- Ethnologists--United States--Biography.
- Ethnologists.
- Paliyan (Indic people)--Social life and customs.
- Paliyan (Indic people).
- Chipewyan Indians--Canada, Northern--Social life and customs.
- Chipewyan Indians.
- Manners and customs.
- Northern Canada.
- Ethnology--Fieldwork--India.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnology--Fieldwork.
- India.
- Ethnology--Fieldwork--Canada.
- Canada.
- Canada--Social life and customs.
- India--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- "Gardner offers a vicarious anthropological experience as he describes his research trips to study the Paliyans of the tropical forests of India, the Dene in the Northwest Territories of Canada, and the sophisticated arts of India and Japan. Reveals both the scientific and the family dimensions of the ethnographer's experience"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Come with me
- With hunter-gatherers in the South Indian jungle
- Lured back to India
- Braving Canada's North
- Quick Asian postscripts
- Treading old paths and new.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 082621634X
- OCLC:
- 62118231
- Publisher Number:
- 9780826216342
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