Expeditionary Anthropology : : Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man'' /

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

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 anthropolog...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
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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

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