7. Living Dead Birds: Doing First Fieldwork in the Wahgi Valley,Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, 1975–1976

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PROLOGUE vii
4. Introduction: Pay Attention and Go with the Flow 1
5. New Guinea
6. 1. Into the Unknown 19 19
7. 2. The Promise of the Visual: Early Fieldwork in the Highland Fringe of New Guinea 32
8. 3. On the Fringe: First Fieldwork in the Upper Sepik, 1966–1967 45
9. 4. Practicing Ethnography in the Mountains of Papua New Guinea 60
10. 5. There Are Stories, and Then There Are Stories: Reflections on Fieldwork 76 76
11. 6. Flying by the Seats of Our Pants: Changing Topics in the Field 89
12. 7. Living Dead Birds: Doing First Fieldwork in the Wahgi Valley,Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, 1975–1976 102
13. 8. Gendered Experiences in the Field: Bariai, West New Britain, 1980–1985 116
14. 9. Fieldwork Interrupted: The Politics of Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea 131
15. Micronesia and Polynesia
16. 10. Reflections and Reconnections of Early Gastronomic Fieldwork in the Pacific, 1966–1980 149
17. 11. Taken around and Taken in Hand 163
18. 12. Led Astray by Too Much Kava 178
19. 13. My Micronesian Exile 193
20. 14. Advice to Anthropologists: Taking It, Leaving It, and Giving It 208
21. Conclusion: Reflecting Forward on Fieldworks-Past 220
22. CONTRIBUTORS 237
23. INDEX 241