Journeys to the edge [electronic resource] : in the footsteps of an anthropologist / Peter M. Gardner.
By: Gardner, Peter M.
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BookPublisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006Description: viii, 230 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Gardner, Peter M | Ethnologists -- United States -- Biography | 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 customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.80092 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.
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.
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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