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Journeys to the edge : in the footsteps of an anthropologist / Peter M. Gardner.

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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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