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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777611603321

Autore

Gardner Peter M

Titolo

Journeys to the edge [[electronic resource] ] : in the footsteps of an anthropologist / / Peter M. Gardner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8262-6522-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

305.80092

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Soggetti

Ethnologists - United States

Paliyan (Indic people) - Social life and customs

Chipewyan Indians - Canada, Northern - Social life and customs

Ethnology - India - Fieldwork

Ethnology - Canada - Fieldwork

Canada Social life and customs

India Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.