Ethnographers Before Malinowski : : Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 / / ed. by Han F. Vermeulen, Frederico Delgado Rosa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Chambers Dawson, Barbara,; Chidester, David,; Cohan Scherer, Joanna,; Delgado Rosa, Frederico,; Grimes, Ronald L,; Hylland Eriksen, Thomas,; Kraus, Michael,; Kubica, Grażyna,; Lewis, Herbert S.,; Mary, André,; McFate, Montgomery,; Paparoa Holman, Jeffrey,; Rosa, Frederico Delgado,; Shankland, David,; Vermeulen, Han F.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: EASA Series ; 44
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (540 p.)

Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists was in reality an era of active ethnographic fieldworkers, including women practitioners and Indigenous experts. Their accounts have multiple layers of meaning, style, and content that deserve fresh reading. This reference work is a vital source for rewriting the history of anthropology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword. Unearthing the Hidden Treasures of Early Ethnography -- Introduction Other Argonauts Chapters in the History of Pre-Malinowskian Ethnography -- Part I In Search of the Native’s Point of View -- 1 “Adapt Fully to Their Customs” Franz Boas as an Ethnographer among the Inuit of Baffinland (1883–84) and His Monograph The Central Eskimo (1888) -- 2 “A Sympathetic Chronicler of a Sympathetic People” Katie Langloh Parker and The Euahlayi Tribe (1905) -- 3 Edward Westermarck, a Master Ethnographer, and His Monograph Ritual and Belief in Morocco (1926) -- Part II The Indigenous Ethnographer’s Magic -- 4 Frontier Ethnography and Colonial Theology Mpengula Mbande and Marginal Informants in Henry Callaway’s The Religious System of the Amazulu (1868–70) -- 5 At the Feet of the Lord of the Dragons Tutakangahau, Elsdon Best, and Waikare-moana: The Sea of the Rippling Waters (1897) -- 6 Partnership with a Native American Family Alice C. Fletcher, Francis La Flesche, and The Omaha Tribe (1911) -- Part III Colonial Ethnography from Invasion to Empathy -- 7 Stepping into a Pit of Snakes John Gregory Bourke and The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona (1884) -- 8 Totemic Relics and Ancestral Fetishes Henri Trilles’s Chez les Fang , or Fifteen Years in the French Congo (1912) -- 9 “The Stream Crosses the Path” Robert Sutherland Rattray and Ashanti (1923) -- Part IV Expeditionary Ethnography as Intensive Fieldwork -- 10 From Savages to Friends Henrique de Carvalho and His Etnografia e História Tradicional dos Povos da Lunda (1890) -- 11 “Do in the Tundra as the Tundra-Dwellers Do” Maria Czaplicka, Her Yenisei Expedition (1914–15), and My Siberian Year (1916) -- 12 Developing Fieldwork in the South American Lowlands Debates and Practices in the Work of German Ethnographers (1884–1928) -- Conclusion Founders of Anthropology and Their Predecessors -- Appendix Selected Bibliography of Ethnographic Accounts, ca. 1870–1922 -- Index