Work in Progress : Essays in New Guinea Highlands Ethnography in Honour of Paula Brown Glick

Anton Ploeg

ISBN 10: 3631485808 / ISBN 13: 9783631485804

Published by Peter Lang, 1996

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Over the last decades the ethnography of the New Guinea Highlands has progressed enormously. Paula Brown Glick has been a main contributor ever since she started doing field work in the late 1950s, until now. With these essays a number of her colleagues present results of their own researches, mainly in the New Guinea Highlands. Thus the book gives a splendid overview of the present state of highlands ethnography.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Work in Progress : Essays in New Guinea Highlands Ethnography in Honour of Paula Brown Glick
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631485808
• ISBN 13: 9783631485804
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 32D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 32 millimeters depth
• Weight: 580 grams

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Synopsis

Over the last decades the ethnography of the New Guinea Highlands has progressed enormously. Paula Brown Glick has been a main contributor ever since she started doing field work in the late 1950s, until now. With these essays a number of her colleagues present results of their own researches, mainly in the New Guinea Highlands. Thus the book gives a splendid overview of the present state of highlands ethnography.

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Contributions by: John Barnes, Aletta Biersack, David Boyd, Harold Brookfield, Susan Drucker-Brown, Bill Epstein, Bill Gammage, Jack Golson, Terence Hays, Lisette Josephides, Hal Levine, Anton Ploeg, Aaron Podolefsky, Andrew Strathern, Marilyn Strathern, George Westermark, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi.