Anthropology and travel writing, 19th-21st century : from proto-ethnographies to self-reflexive travelogues / edited by Horatiu Burcea

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burcea, Horatiu, editor.

Series:

Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 57.

Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropologists' writings.

Travelers' writings.

Ethnology--Authorship.

Ethnology.

Self-knowledge, Theory of.

travel literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

black and white

color

illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2026

Summary:

"From the nineteenth century onward, there have been gaps between travel writing and anthropological sciences, but also commonalities and continuous interactions in the anglophone world. Through a variety of case studies resulting from a collaboration between anthropologists and literary scholars, Anthropology and Travel Writing follows the shift from armchair speculation to sustained fieldwork, from the picturesque to analytic thick description and from colonial typologies to Indigenous counter-readings. Attentive to the notions of authority, validity, identity and reflexivity, this volume explores how alterity is scrutinized and staged, delineating the aesthetic, analytic and ethical stakes of representation"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction. At the crossroads of doubt / Horatiu Burcea

Travelogue to ethnography : the literary genealogy of observation : a Cretan example / Michael Herzfeld

Variations of the ‘writer’s ethos’ among travellers and anthropologists : from experience to writing – Nigel Barley’s sense of humour / Odile Gannier

Henry Adams in the South Seas : an anthropological temptation? / Pierre Lagayette

Missionary travel writing, missionary practices and anthropological knowledge on the map of the British Empire, 1865–1920 / Maud Michaud

The end of racial science? physical anthropology, experimental psychology and the measurement of difference in the Torres Strait, 1898–99 / Elise Smith

From fiction to fieldwork : Robert Louis Stevenson as apprentice anthropologist in the Pacific / Kévin Cristin

Painting as ethnological travel documentation : George Catlin and Karl Bodmer in the trans-Mississippi West / Robert Sayre

Anthropology and the doubtful visions of the Pacific : masking the mediation of the traveller’s gaze / Laura Singeot

‘Everything is fresh to western eyes’ : Frederick Horniman’s views towards Asian peoples and cultures during his travels between 1894 and 1896 / Ryan Nutting

Among the Asians : Isabella Bird’s ‘magnificent savages’ / Floriane Reviron-Piégay

Imperial spouses and female travellees in Central Asia / Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

Finding the native eye : exploring Alaska Native realities through extended observation of biomes in Barry Lopez’s Arctic dreams / Benjamin Ferguson

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed July 16, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Anthropology and travel writing, 19th-21st century

ISBN:

9781836956679

1836956673

9781836956686

1836956681

OCLC:

1601980224

Publisher Number:

CIPO000403225

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license