Native Mesoamerican People, Rural Sociology, Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Ecology, Landscape & Environment - Social Aspects
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Overview
Originally published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1994, Stephanie C. Kane's The Phantom Gringo Boat has been recognized as a ground-breaking piece of ethnological research. This second edition contains a new preface by the author and, reprinted in an Appendix, two supplementary essays on gender, the rain-forest and the state, and three reviews of the first edition.Editorials
Jonathan D. Hill
A fascinating work that will be very useful in courses on South American ethnology, development, ethnohistory, and ethnographic writing. . . . a tribute both to the author’s creativity as an ethnographer and to the resilience of social anthropology in an unpredictable world.—American Ethnologist
P.R. Sullivan
A marvelously sensitive, stimulating, witty, yet forboding portrait of life on the tropical forest frontier between Central and South America. . . . a model ethnography for a discipline striving to find new means of expression, and her treatment of international politics and indigenous shamanism, women’s domestic roles and changing ecology, canoe construction and cash economies, murder and mythology, makes for a rich, sophisticated story that readers at all levels may find engrossing.—Choice
Among the best and most elegant works of ethnography that I’ve ever read. . . . a model of and for contemporary ethnographic practice and representation.
—American Anthropologist
Book Details
Published
December 1, 1994
Publisher
Prentice Hall & IBD
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781560983613