The Phantom Gringo Boat: Shamanic Discourse and Development in Panama
Language: English
Published by Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994, 1994
- First Edition
- Softcover
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As new! Trade paperback, first edition, few illustrations, xxv + Pp24. Includes references, glossary, bibliography and index. A tight, unmarked, near fine copy. 375 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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- Title
- The Phantom Gringo Boat: Shamanic Discourse and Development in Panama
- Author
- Stephanie C. Kane
- Publisher
- Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994
- Publication year
- 1994
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1560983604
- ISBN 13
- 9781560983606
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Anthropology
As in the myth of a phantom gringo boat receding into the mist, elusive
promises of participatory democracy and a semiautonomous forest reserve have
spurred the Ember
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"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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