Adventures in the Stone Age : a New Guinea diary /
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| Author / Creator: | Pospisil, Leopold J., author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Prague : Karolinum, 2021. |
| Description: | 1 online resource () : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Map Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12751853 |
| Summary: | When Leopold Pospísil first arrived in New Guinea in 1954 to investigate the legal systems of the local tribes, he was warned about the Kapauku who reputedly had no laws. Dubious that any society could exist without laws, Pospísil immediately decided to live among and study the Kapauku._x000D__x000D_Learning the language and living as a participant-observer among the Kapauku, Pospísil discovers that the supposedly primitive society possesses laws, rules, and social structures that are as sophisticated as they are logical. Having survived the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and fled the Communist regime, Pospísil has little patience for the notion that so-called advanced civilizations are superior to the 'stone age' society in which he now lives._x000D__x000D_On the basis of his research and experiences among the Kapauku - he would stay with them five times between 1954 and 1979 - Pospísil pioneered in the field of legal anthropology, holding a professorship at Yale, serving as the anthropology curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and publishing three books of scholarship on the Kapauku law. As Jaroslav Jiřík and Martin Soukup write in their afterword, however, "His three previously published works are about the Kapauku; this one is about the anthropologist among the Kapauku."_x000D__x000D_The memoir is filled with charming anecdotes and thrilling stories of trials, travels, and war - told with humor and humility--and accompanied by a wealth of the author's personal photos from the time._x000D_ |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource () : illustrations (some color), maps |
| ISBN: | 9788024648071 8024648075 9788024647517 |
