Journeys to the edge
Subtitle: in the footsteps of an anthropologist
By: Peter M. Gardner.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780826216342
Subjects: Gardner, Peter M.; Ethnologists -- United States -- Biography.; Paliyan (Indic people) -- Social life and customs.; Chipawayan Indians -- Canada, Northern -- Social life and customs.; Ethnology -- India -- Field work.; Ethnology -- Canada -- Field work.; Canada -- Social life and customs.; India -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.