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Author Gardner, Peter M.

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

Imprint Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

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Description viii, 230 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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 customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 082621634X (alk. paper)

 
    
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