Journeys to the Edge: In the Footsteps of an Anthropologist

Contents

Contents Come with Me To the Very Edges of Our World 3 With Hunter-Gatherers in the South Indian Jungle Stumbling into the Tropics 9 Seeking the Quiet People 22 Utopia in a Thorn Forest 30 Whimsy, Wild Boars, and Wilder Spirits 38 With Princes into Wilderness 55 Bulls, Bites, and Other Challenges 67 Rewards of Fieldwork 79 Travel, Paris, and the Devil’s Advocate 85 Lured Back to India Through Alice’s Looking Glass 95 Savoring India Personally 104 vii Braving Canada’s North Toward Northern Forest 119 Subarctic Ways 130 Private Thought Worlds 145 Tasting the North 151 Experiments, Puzzles, Exams 160 The Very Edge of the Inhabited World 167 Quick Asian Postscripts Performers in Indian Bronze 177 Time Edges in Japan 185 Treading Old Paths and New Journeys that Converge 203 Adapting to the Path of Cancer 211 A Note of Thanks 219 Notes 221 Bibliography 225 Index of Places 229 viii Contents ...