Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea

by Stuart Kirsch

Book Overview

While ethnography ordinarily privileges anthropological interpretations, this book attempts the reciprocal process of describing indigenous modes of analysis. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research with the Yonggom people of New Guinea, the author examines how indigenous analysis organizes local knowledge and provides a framework for interpreting events, from first contact and colonial rule to contemporary interactions with a multinational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804753423
• ISBN13: 9780804753425
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"