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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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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Very good. includes errata sheet. 362 p., bibliography. 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. 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.
