The Phantom Gringo Boat: Shamanic Discourse and Development in Panama (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)
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Published by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994
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- Title
- The Phantom Gringo Boat: Shamanic Discourse and Development in Panama (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)
- Author
- Kane, Stephanie C.
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution Press
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1560983612
- ISBN 13
- 9781560983613
Originally published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1994, Stephanie C. Kane's The Phantom Gringo Boat has been recognized as a ground-breaking piece of ethnological research. This second edition contains a new preface by the author and, reprinted in an Appendix, two supplementary essays on gender, the rain-forest and the state, and three reviews of the first edition.
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"A fascinating work that will be very useful in courses on South American ethnology, development, ethnohistory, and ethnographic writing." --Jonathan D. Hill, American Ethnologist
"A marvelously sensitive, stimulating, witty, yet forboding portrait of life on the tropical forest frontier between Central and South America." --P. R. Sullivan, Choice
"Among the best and most elegant works of ethnography that I’ve ever read. . . . a model of ethnographic practice and representation." --Paul Stoller, American Anthropologist
"A marvelously sensitive, stimulating, witty, yet forboding portrait of life on the tropical forest frontier between Central and South America." --P. R. Sullivan, Choice
"Among the best and most elegant works of ethnography that I’ve ever read. . . . a model of ethnographic practice and representation." --Paul Stoller, American Anthropologist
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