Expeditionary anthropology : teamwork, travel and the 'science of man' / edited by Martin Thomas and Amanda Harris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thomas, Martin, 1964- editor.

Harris, Amanda, 1976- editor.

Series:

Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 33.

Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Fieldwork.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Research.

Scientific expeditions.

Physical Description:

ix, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2018.

Summary:

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 analyses 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.

Contents:

Anthropology and the expeditionary imaginary : an introduction to the volume / Martin Thomas and Amanda Harris

Assembling the ethnographic field : the 1901-02 expedition of Baldwin Spencer and Francis Gillen / Philip Batty

Receiving guests : the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits 1898 / Jude Philp

Donald Thomson's hybrid expeditions : anthropology, biology and narrative in northern Australia and England / Saskia Beudel

Looking at culture through an artist's eyes : William Henry Holmes and the exploration of Native American archaeology / Pamela M. Henson

The anomalous blonds of the Maghreb : Carleton Coon invents the African Nordics / Warwick Anderson

Medium, genre, indigenous presence : Spanish expeditionary encounters in the Mar del Sur, 1606 / Bronwen Douglas

Ethnographic inquiry on Phillip Parker King's hydrographic survey / Tiffany Shellam

Gender and the expedition : feminist anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons and the politics of fieldwork in the Americas in the 1920s and 1930s / Desley Deacon

What has been forgotten? The discourses of Margaret Mead and the American Museum of Natural History Sepik expedition / Diane Losche

Gender, science and imperial drive : Margaret McArthur on two expeditions in the 1940s / Amanda Harris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781785337727

1785337726

OCLC:

993755872