Ethnographic presents : pioneering anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea highlands / edited by Terence E. Hays.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hays, Terence E., Author.

Contributor:

Hays, Terence E.

Series:

Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; v. 12.

Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 12

Studies in Melanesian anthropology Ethnographic presents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--History.

Ethnology.

Ethnologists--Papua New Guinea.

Ethnologists.

Ethnology--History--Papua New Guinea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 301 p., [4] p. of plates ) ill., maps, ports. ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Life on the frontier suggests excitement, danger, and backbreaking labour. In this book the frontier is the Highlands region of what is now Papua New Guinea - largely unexplored by Westerners as late as 1950. In the next five years a dozen pioneering anthropologists followed closely on the heels of 'first contact' patrols. Their innovative fieldwork is well documented, and now, in this autobiographical collection, we learn what being on the frontier was like for the ethnographers themselves.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

EDITOR ' S PREFACE

THE CONTRIBUTORS

1. A Historical Background to Anthropology in the Papua New Guinea Highlands

2. In the Footprints of Reo Fortune

3. Into the Unknown!

4. Journey along Mythic Paths

5. An Innocent in the Garden of Eden

6. Kainantu: Recollections of a First Encounter

7. Meeting the Mendi

8. Encounters with the Huli: Fieldword at Tari in the 1950s

9. Looking Backward and Forward

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-287) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-520-91234-9

0-585-10100-0

OCLC:

1414455625