Facets of Fieldwork ─ Essays in Honor of Jurg Wassmann

Anthropologists tackle some of the facets of fieldwork that they usually face before, during, or after research in a particular region of the Pacific. Among their topics are the Coral Gardens are losing their magic: the social and cultural impact of climate change and overpopulation for the Trobriand Islanders, visions of a village in Papua New Guinea, the early field and commercial recordings of Kuman music: research using repatriated music in Papua New Guinea and recent threats to cultural diversity, challenges and profits of interdisciplinary fieldwork in linguistic and cognitive anthropology, and anthropology meets psychology. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)