A Faraway, Familiar Place: Returning to Papua New Guinea
Michael French Smith
ISBN: | 9780824853440 |
Publisher: | University of Hawai'i Press |
Published: | 30 April, 2015 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
A Faraway, Familiar Place: Returning to Papua New Guinea
Michael French Smith
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 clichU of oStone Ageo 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.
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