The Roth family, anthropology, and colonial administration / edited by Russell McDougall and Iain Davidson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McDougall, Russell.

Davidson, Iain, 1948-

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Publications of the institute of archaeology, University College London

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925.

Roth, H. Ling.

Roth, Walter E. (Walter Edmund), 1861-1933.

Roth, Walter E.

Roth family.

Anthropologists--Great Britain--Biography.

Anthropologists.

Ethnology--Australia.

Ethnology.

Manners and customs.

Australia.

Ethnology--Indonesia.

Indonesia.

Ethnology--South America.

South America.

Australia--Social life and customs.

Indonesia--Social life and customs.

South America--Social life and customs.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2008]

Summary:

No family better represents the overlapping roles of administrators and scientists in the British empire than the Roths. Descended from a Hungarian emigrant to Australia, two generations of Roths served the empire on four continents and, at the same time, produced ethnographic, archaeological, and linguistic studies that form the basis for much modern research. This volume assesses the often-conflicting roles and contributions of the Roths as government servants and anthropologists. Most of the volume deals with Walter E. Roth, who developed foundational studies of both the Australian Aborigines-considered to be among the first systematic ethnographies anywhere-and South American tribes while serving as Chief Protector of Aborigines in Queensland and later medical officer, magistrate, museum curator and indigenous relations officer in British Guyana. Henry Ling Roth's contributions to the anthropology of Tasmania, Benin, Sarawak, and New Zealand are also enumerated, as are the publications and administrative activities of the succeeding generation of Roths. This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology.

Contents:

Making otherness the norm / Judit Brody

The family background and achievements of Walter Edmund Roth / Barrie Reynolds

Henry Ling Roth : the natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo / Robert Hampson

The making of Great Benin : Felix Norman Roth and Henry Ling Roth / Russell McDougall

The primitive body and colonial administration : Henry Ling Roth's approach to body modification / Alice Gorman

From Oxford to the bush : W.E. Roth, W.B. Spencer and Australian anthropology / John Mulvaney

Ethnological studies and archaeology of north west central Queensland / Iain Davidson

W.E. Roth and the study of Aboriginal languages in Queensland / Gavan Breen

W.E. Roth on Asians in Sustralia / Regina Ganter

The legacy of a 'lazy character' : Walter Roth's contribution to the ethnography collections of the Queensland Museum / Richard Robins

The life and times of Walter Edmund Roth in north Queensland : the first protector, the Australian museum and scandal / Kate Khan

Naked shame : nation, science and indigenous knowledge in Walter Roth's interventions into frontier sexualities / Ann McGrath

Walter Edmund Roth : Royal commissioner of Western Australia, 1904 / Geoffrey Gray

Walter Roth and ethno-pornography / Helen Pringle

An indigenous compendium : Walter E. Roth and the ethnology of British Guiana / Neil L. Whitehead

'Protector of Indians' : assessing Walter Roth's legacy in policy towards Amerindians in Guyana / Janette Bulkan and Arif Bulkan

Vincent Roth : the man, his life and his work / Michael Bennett

George Kingsley Roth and the Fijian way of life / Julian Croft.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9781598742282

1598742280

OCLC:

191865138