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UNINA9910808211303321 |
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Autore |
Gardner Peter M |
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Titolo |
Journeys to the edge : in the footsteps of an anthropologist / / Peter M. Gardner |
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Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2006 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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. |
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