Ethnographic presents pioneering anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands / [electronic resource]
Hays, Terence E.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c1992.
Life on the frontier suggests excitement, danger, and backbreaking labour. In this book the frontier is the Highlands region of what is now Papua New Guinea - largely unexplored by Westerners as late as 1950. In the next five years a dozen pioneering anthropologists followed closely on the heels of 'first contact' patrols. Their innovative fieldwork is well documented, and now, in this autobiographical collection, we learn what being on the frontier was like for the ethnographers themselves.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-287) and index.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Life on the frontier suggests excitement, danger, and backbreaking labour. In this book the frontier is the Highlands region of what is now Papua New Guinea - largely unexplored by Westerners as late as 1950. In the next five years a dozen pioneering anthropologists followed closely on the heels of 'first contact' patrols. Their innovative fieldwork is well documented, and now, in this autobiographical collection, we learn what being on the frontier was like for the ethnographers themselves.
Description based on print version record.
Ethnology
Ethnologists
Ethnology
Ethnologists
Anthropology - General
Anthropology
Social Sciences