2nd Edition
The Bamboo Fire Field Work with the New Guinea Wape
By William E. Mitchell
Copyright 2012
303 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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Anthropology is primarily done in the field, unlike the laboratory oriented experimental sciences. Experimental sciences make their observations in constructed settings that permit variables influencing the outcome of the experiment to be known and controlled. In contrast, anthropology's object of inquiry, like the science of ethology is life experience in its natural setting. To understand how... Read more
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Introduction
1. The First Sparks
2. The Search
3. A Home in the Forest
4. A Time Before
5. Phases and Feelings
6 .The Ballad of Epilo and Pauwis
7. The Dangerous Desire
8. Guns, Ghosts, and Goodness
9. Madness and the Mother Monster
10. Flying Blind
11. High Hopes and Blighted Dreams
12. The Night of the Seven Days
13. Embers and Ashes
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Afterword to the Transaction Edition
Biography
William E. Mitchell
