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Remembering Papua New Guinea
Remembering Papua New Guinea: An Eccentric Ethnography
William C. Clarke
This is on my "must read" pile. Here's the author's informative and photo-rich website:
Remembering Papua New Guinea: An Eccentric Ethnography
May 10, 2010 9:24:19 AM
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Yeah i remember papua new guinea. No, wait as a matter a fact i don't...
Posted by: GillenGuajardo29 | 05/10/2010 at 09:30 AM
[this is good] I haven't seen this, but I know Bill personally and I'd be surprised if it wasn't an excellent piece of work. Bill was one of the first geographer/anthropologists to publish "creative" work -- in his case, a poem -- and he was so concerned about what the reaction might be that he didn't use his name.
Nowdays, it would be less than nothing. This was -- if memory serves -- in the early seventies.
Posted by: Don | 05/24/2010 at 02:35 PM
Very interesting, personally, as I'm a poet myself. Hmmm.
Thanks Don!
Posted by: HP | 05/25/2010 at 11:05 AM