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Ants for Breakfast: Archaeological Adventures among the Kalinga Even as he looked for clues to the past in the practices of the present, the author’s time in the Kalinga homeland was packed with excitment: mystery, danger, sex, violence, and death. In the co
| Title | : | Ants for Breakfast: Archaeological Adventures among the Kalinga |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (775 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 0874806208 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
A view from the remote Philippine highlands where the author’s time in the kalinga homeland was packed with the elements of a thriller novel: mystery, danger, sex, violence, death—and research too!Ants for Breakfast is about the adventure of modern archaeology. Seeking insight into prehistoric pottery manufacture and use, archaeologist James Skibo traveled to the remote Phillippine highlands to live with the Kalinga people, once headhunters, and one of the few groups in the world who still use ceramics for cooking.Even as he looked for clues to the past in the practices of the present, the author’s time in the Kalinga homeland was packed with excitment: mystery, danger, sex, violence, and death. It was also an opportunity to taste a world both subtly and vastly different, while adding a new perspective to his own. In the course of his narrative, Skibo seizes every opportunity to link his experiences to the development of modern archaeology, and to such topics a
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"Let's say you're living with guilt and shame for a mistake you made ten years ago. The complexity presented through the argument of "the person versus the first-person narrative" is rife within this sublime collection. Each of us is the artist of our own life, the director of our own play, and we can make it an adventure or a drama - heaven or hell, it's up to us.
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"Let's say you're living with guilt and shame for a mistake you made ten years ago. The complexity presented through the argument of "the person versus the first-person narrative" is rife within this sublime collection. Each of us is the artist of our own life, the director of our own play, and we can make it an adventure or a drama - heaven or hell, it's up to us.
The first part of the
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