The Bamboo Fire
Field Work with the New Guinea Wape
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 people organize their lives both in thought and in action, one must settle among them for a very long time.The Wape of Papua New Guinea inhabit a mountainous rain forest and live in sedentary villages. They are slash and burn horticulturalists. marriag…
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- ISBN: 978-1-351-30547-1
- EAN: 9781351305471
- Produktnummer: 24434887
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 302 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 15'865 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
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