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A Faraway, Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea
Michael French Smith
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Description for A Faraway, Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
A Far Away Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea is for readers seeking an excursion deep into little-known terrain but allergic to the wide-eyed superfi ciality of ordinary travel literature. Author Michael French Smith savors the sometimes gritty romance of his travels to an island village far from roads, electricity, telephone service, and the Internet, but puts to rest the cliché of “Stone Age” Papua New Guinea. He also gives the lie to stereotypes of anthropologists as either machete-wielding swashbucklers or detached observers turning real people into abstractions. Smith uses his anthropological expertise subtly, to illuminate Papua ... Read more
A Far Away Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea is for readers seeking an excursion deep into little-known terrain but allergic to the wide-eyed superfi ciality of ordinary travel literature. Author Michael French Smith savors the sometimes gritty romance of his travels to an island village far from roads, electricity, telephone service, and the Internet, but puts to rest the cliché of “Stone Age” Papua New Guinea. He also gives the lie to stereotypes of anthropologists as either machete-wielding swashbucklers or detached observers turning real people into abstractions. Smith uses his anthropological expertise subtly, to illuminate Papua ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Univ Hawaii Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824853440
SKU
V9780824853440
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99-12
About Michael French Smith
Michael French Smith helps organizations promote health, prosperity, and social justice in the U.S. and around the world through Michael French Smith Consulting.
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