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Ethnographic Presents - Pioneering Anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (Hardcover)
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Ethnographic Presents - Pioneering Anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, 12
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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 - a part of the world 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 an autobiographical collection that is intimate and
richly detailed, we learn what being on the frontier was like for
the ethnographers themselves. Featured are Catherine H. Berndt,
Ronald M. Berndt, Reo Fortune (by Ann McLean), Robert M. Glasse,
Marie Reay, D'Arcy Ryan, and James B. Watson, and the seven new
essays are put in historical contect by Terence Hays. A concluding
essay by Andrew Stathem points out that this early work among the
peoples of the Central Highlands not only influenced all subsequent
understanding of Highland cultures but also had a profound impact
on the field of anthropology.
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