A Faraway, Familiar Place: Returning to Papua New Guinea - Softcover

Smith, Michael French

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082485344X ISBN 13: 9780824853440

Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

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 cliche 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 New Guinean lives, to nudge readers to look more closely at ideas they take for granted, and to take a wry look at his own experiences as an anthropologist.

Biografía del autor:

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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• Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 082485344X
• ISBN 13: 9780824853440
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248