Expeditionary Anthropology : : Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man'' / / ed. by Martin Thomas, Amanda Harris.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Warwick,; Batty, Philip,; Beudel, Saskia,; Deacon, Desley,; Douglas, Bronwen,; Harris, Amanda,; Henson, Pamela M.,; Losche, Diane,; Philp, Jude,; Shellam, Tiffany,; Thomas, Martin,
• HerausgeberIn: Harris, Amanda,; Thomas, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 33
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)

The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older tradition of team-based social research has been largely eclipsed. Expeditionary Anthropology argues that expeditions have much to tell us about anthropologists and the people they studied. The book charts the diversity of anthropological expeditions and analyzes the often passionate arguments they provoked. Drawing on recent developments in gender studies, indigenous studies, and the history of science, the book argues that even today, the ‘science of man’ is deeply inscribed by its connections with expeditionary travel.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE EXPEDITIONARY IMAGINARY AN INTRODUCTION TO THE VOLUME -- PART I Anthropology and the Field: Intermediaries and Exchange -- Chapter 1 ASSEMBLING THE ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD THE 1901–02 EXPEDITION OF BALDWIN SPENCER AND FRANCIS GILLEN -- Chapter 2 RECEIVING GUESTS THE CAMBRIDGE ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO TORRES STRAITS 1898 -- Chapter 3 DONALD THOMSON’S HYBRID EXPEDITIONS ANTHROPOLOGY, BIOLOGY AND NARRATIVE IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA AND ENGLAND -- PART II Exploration, Archaeology, Race and Emergent Anthropology -- Chapter 4 LOOKING AT CULTURE THROUGH AN ARTIST’S EYES WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES AND THE EXPLORATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY -- Chapter 5 THE ANOMALOUS BLONDS OF THE MAGHREB CARLETON COON INVENTS THE AFRICAN NORDICS -- Chapter 6 MEDIUM, GENRE, INDIGENOUS PRESENCE SPANISH EXPEDITIONARY ENCOUNTERS IN THE MAR DEL SUR, 1606 -- Chapter 7 ETHNOGRAPHIC INQUIRY ON PHILLIP PARKER KING’S HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY -- PART III The Question of Gender -- Chapter 8 GENDER AND THE EXPEDITION FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGIST ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS AND THE POLITICS OF FIELDWORK IN THE AMERICAS IN THE 1920s AND 1930s -- Chapter 9 WHAT HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN? THE DISCOURSES OF MARGARET MEAD AND THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SEPIK EXPEDITION -- Chapter 10 GENDER, SCIENCE AND IMPERIAL DRIVE MARGARET MCARTHUR ON TWO EXPEDITIONS IN THE 1940s -- INDEX