A Faraway, Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea

by Michael French Smith

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A Faraway 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 superficiality 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 clich of "Stone Age" Papua New Guinea. He also...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:082485344X

ISBN13:9780824853440

Release Date:November 2014

Publisher:University of Hawaii Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Social Science Social Sciences Travel

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