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

By: Gardner, Peter MContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006Description: viii, 230 p. : ill., mapsSubject(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 LOC classification: GN21.G37 | A3 2006Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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