Journeys to the Edge: In the Footsteps of an Anthropologist

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Notes Seeking the Quiet People 1. Tamil is shown with double vowels for long sounds, c for the sound ch, and uppercase letters for retroflex consonants (said with the tongue curled back, these heard only medially or finally in words). The spelling of the tribe’s name is properly “PaLiyan.” 2. Gardner, Bicultural Versatility as a Frontier Adaptation among Paliyan Foragers of South India, 26. Utopia in a Thorn Forest 1. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching; William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice; and Herbert Spencer, Social Statics. 2. Gardner,“The Paliyans,” 432. 3. Ernestine Friedl, Women and Men: An Anthropologist’s View, 7; Morton H. Fried, The Evolution of Political Society, 32, 33. 4. Colin M. Turnbull, The Mountain People. With Princes into Wilderness 1. Gardner, Bicultural Versatility, 211. 221 Savoring India Personally 1. John B. Carroll, ed., Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Toward Northern Forest 1. Émile Durkheim, Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. 2. Thomas R. Berger, Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland, 95. Subarctic Ways 1. I have written Dene words using several conventions: c stands for ch; q stands for a k-like consonant far back in the mouth; x is close to English h; and O – represents a “voiceless” th (as in English “thin”). Several consonants can be accompanied by either a glottal stop ’ or a very audible and explosive gust of air h. 2. Curt P. Richter, “On the Phenomenon of Sudden Death in Animals and Man.” 3. Barbara W. Lex, “Voodoo Death: New Thoughts on an Old Explanation,” 820. Private Thought Worlds 1. Gardner,“Birds, Words, and a Requiem for the Omniscient Informant.” 2. Jane Christian and Peter M. Gardner, The Individual in Northern Dene Thought and Communication: A Study in Sharing and Diversity, 268–81. 3. Ibid., 147. Experiments, Puzzles, Exams 1. Berger, Northern Frontier, 200. Performers in Indian Bronze 1. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Transformation of Nature in Art; D. N. Shukla, Vastu-Shastra, Volume II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting. 222 Notes Time Edges in Japan 1. Anthony F. C. Wallace, Culture and Personality. 2. Nyozekan Hasegawa, The Japanese Character, 59–61. Journeys That Converge 1. Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record, 13. 2. Clyde Kluckhohn and Olaf Prufer, “Influences during the Formative Years,” 6. 3. Chuang Tzu, Chuang Tzu, 41. 4. Feng Yu-lan, A History of Chinese Philosophy, 234. 5. Chuang Tzu, Chuang Tzu, 25. 6. Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching, 9. 7. Liu An, Yüan Dao, 83–85. 8. Roger T. Ames, introduction to Yüan Dao, 7, 20–21, 41–42. 9. Ibid., 20. 10. Ibid., 65. Adapting to the Path of Cancer 1. John M. Roberts,“Oaths, Autonomic Ordeals, and Power.” Notes 223 ...