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

by Michael French Smith

Book Overview

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"