Not only is this work a vivid description of the Wape people living in the rain mountains of New Guinea, but also it is a personal and emotional account of how the author tried to understand them and the kinds of intercultural problems that were engendered in the process. Mitchell gives the reader a feeling of the reflexive nature of the fieldwork experience, demonstrating how the anthropologist proceeds in his or her work as well as describing the social and psychological context in which that work evolves.
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“[R]ich in ethnographic description and reflection… Mitchell’s skill as a raconteur excites the reader’s imagination. The Bamboo Fire is an ideal book for students in introductory anthropology classes, as well as ethnomedicine, social organiation, and field methods.”
– Marilyn Jean Schlit, American Anthropologist
“[A] forthright account of the methodological difficulties, frustrations, and interpersonal problems that are an intrinsic part of fieldwork.”
– Stephen C. Leavitt, Ethnologist
“Its lively, personal, and extremely accessible prose makes it an entertaining entrée for the lay reader into the ethnographer’s world, while its substantial ethnographic content and relevance to contemporary reflexive trends in anthropology make it an ideal text for general anthropology courses and undergraduate courses in Pacific ethnography.”
– P. B. Roscoe, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.From the Publisher
Companion VHS Video Cassette Tape (25 minutes, black and white) available! Magical Curing, filmed and narrated by William Mitchell, offers unusual footage of the curing practices of the Wape people of Papua, New Guinea. It captures village scenes of demon curing festivals and exorcisms as well as the introduced practices of Western medical patrols.
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