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Michael French Smith grew up in the deceptively quiet small town of Holt, Michigan. He attended Holt High School, where he distinguished himself as the youngest student ever to be inducted into the National Honor Society - and the youngest ever to be kicked out. Other distinctions followed. Nevertheless, he attended Michigan State University, after which he earned his PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of California–San Diego.

He began his association with Papua New Guinea in 1973 and has written two books about the country—Hard Times on Kairiru Island (1994) and Village on the Edge (2002)—as well as many articles in anthropological journals and popular periodicals on topics ranging from the history of time scarcity to surfboard ...more

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Ted Schwartz Book Project and "Faraway, Familiar" Update

I’ll be in Del Mar, California, again in September to work with Ted Schwartz on the book we are writing together. I’ve been reviewing recent literature on the Paliau Movement in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG), which Ted started studying in 1953. The political and religious phenomena intertwined in the Paliau Movement are still evolving and still fascinating. Anthropologist Ton Otto in part Read more of this blog post »

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	Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea 3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Faraway, Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hard Times on Kairiru Island: Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Like Fire: The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia (Monographs in Anthropology) by Theodore Schwartz, Michael French Smith (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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― John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues

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“...yesterday, returning from Wawela I had some ethnological ideas, but I can't remember what they were.”
― Bronislaw Malinowski, A Diary in the Strictest Sense of the Term

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― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

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