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Elsdon Best.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holman, Jeffrey Paparoa.
- Series:
- Anthropology's Ancestors Series
- Anthropology's Ancestors Series ; v.7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology.
- Colonial influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2025.
- Summary:
- This volume is dedicated to the New Zealander ethnographer Elsdon Best (1856-1931) who is a key figure in the history of anthropology due to his involuntary triggering of a fundamental and long-lasting anthropological debate on the Māori concept of hau.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - The Life of a Frontier Man, Salvage Ethnographer, and Museum Anthropologist
- Chapter 2 - "I Shall Tell You about Hau …": At the Roots of an Anthropological Debate
- Chapter 3 - Anachronistic and Modern Motives in Searching the "Mythopoetic Māori"
- Chapter 4 - Indigenous Authorities and the Hybrid Construction of the Archive
- Chapter 5 - Writing "Tribal" History: Tuhoe: The Children of the Mist (1925)
- Chapter 6 - Tapu, Mana, and Social Organization
- Chapter 7 - "A World of Pathos": Ethnography, Despondency, and Colonialism
- Chapter 8 - Decolonial Critique, Indigenous Research, and Best's Legacy
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-80539-890-3
- OCLC:
- 1521494123
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