Expeditionary Anthropology

Author : Martin Thomas,Amanda Harris
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785337734

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Expeditionary Anthropology by Martin Thomas,Amanda Harris Pdf

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 analyzes 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.

Author : Joshua A. Bell,Alison K. Brown,Robert J. Gordon
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781935623243

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Recreating First Contact by Joshua A. Bell,Alison K. Brown,Robert J. Gordon Pdf

Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology. During this period, new transport and recording technologies, particularly the airplane and automobile and small, portable, still and motion-picture cameras, were utilized by a variety of expeditions to document the last untouched places of the globe and bring them home to eager audiences. These expeditions were frequently presented as first contact encounters and enchanted popular imagination. The various narratives encoded in the articles, books, films, exhibitions and lecture tours that these expeditions generated fed into pre-existing stereotypes about racial and technological difference, and helped to create them anew in popular culture. Through an unpacking of expeditions and their popular wakes, the essays (12 chapters, a preface, introduction and afterward) trace the complex but obscured relationships between anthropology, adventure travel and the cinematic imagination that the 1920s and 1930s engendered and how their myths have endured. The book further explores the effects - both positive and negative - of such expeditions on the discipline of anthropology itself. However, in doing so, this volume examines these impacts from a variety of national perspectives and thus through these different vantage points creates a more nuanced perspective on how expeditions were at once a global phenomenon but also culturally ordered.

Author : Anita Herle,Sandra Rouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521584612

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Cambridge and the Torres Strait by Anita Herle,Sandra Rouse Pdf

Centenary volume of the Torres Strait Expedition suggesting new ways of looking at its work.

Author : Joshua Alexander Bell,Erin L. Hasinoff
Publisher : Bard Graduate Center - Cultura
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1941792006

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The Anthropology of Expeditions by Joshua Alexander Bell,Erin L. Hasinoff Pdf

In the West at the turn of the twentieth century, public understanding of science and the world was shaped in part by expeditions to Asia, North America, and the Pacific. The Anthropology of Expeditions draws together contributions from anthropologists and historians of science to explore the role of these journeys in natural history and anthropology between approximately 1890 and 1930. By examining collected materials as well as museum and archive records, the contributors to this volume shed light on the complex social life and intimate work practices of the researchers involved in these expeditions. At the same time, the contributors also demonstrate the methodological challenges and rewards of studying these legacies and provide new insights for the history of collecting, history of anthropology, and histories of expeditions. Offering fascinating insights into the nature of expeditions and the human relationships that shaped them, The Anthropology of Expeditions sets a new standard for the field.

Author : A. C. Haddon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521179867

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Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits: Volume 1, General Ethnography by A. C. Haddon Pdf

The first volume compiles the results of an ethnographical research expedition in the Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Borneo.

Author : Barry Alan Joyce
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803225911

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The Shaping of American Ethnography by Barry Alan Joyce Pdf

In August of 1838 the United States Exploring Expedition set sail from Norfolk Navy Yard with six ships and more than seven hundred crewmen, including technicians and scientists. Over the course of four years the expedition made stops on the east and west coasts of South America; visited Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, and Tahiti; discovered the Antarctic land mass; and explored the Fiji Islands, Tonga, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Pacific Coast of North America. ø In The Shaping of American Ethnography Barry Alan Joyce illuminates the process by which the Americans on the expedition filtered their observations of the indigenous peoples they encountered through the lens of their peculiar constructions of "savagery" as shaped by the American experience. The native peoples were classified according to the prevailing American perceptions of Native Americans as "wild" and African American slaves as "docile." The use of physical characteristics such as skin color as a classificatory tool was subordinated to the perceived image of the prototypical savage. Joyce argues that the nineteenth-century explorers shared the attributes that characterize the discipline of anthropology in any age?a reliance on synthetic systems that are period- and culture-dependent. By applying American images of savagery to world cultures, American scientists and explorers of this period helped construct the foundation for an American racial weltanschauung that contributed to the implementation of manifest destiny and laid the ideological foundations for American expansion and imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : A. C. Haddon,W. H. R. Rivers,C. G. Seligmann,A. Wilkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521179890

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Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits: Volume 5, Sociology, Magic and Religion of the Western Islanders by A. C. Haddon,W. H. R. Rivers,C. G. Seligmann,A. Wilkin Pdf

Alfred Cort Haddon (1855-1940) was a highly influential British anthropologist and ethnologist who was instrumental in the foundation of a school of anthropology at Cambridge University. During 1898 and 1899, Haddon led an expedition which conducted ethnographical research in the Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Borneo. The main results of this expedition were compiled in a series of volumes, containing contributions from a diverse range of specialists. Originally published in 1904, this is the fifth in that series. The text contains information on the societies and belief structures of the indigenous peoples living in the western islands of the Strait. A large number of illustrative figures are also included, demonstrating a broad variety of traditional practices. This is a fascinating book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development of anthropology and ethnology.

Author : Irfan Ahmad
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789209891

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Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent by Irfan Ahmad Pdf

In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. These interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane. Six anthropologists with field experience in Egypt, Greece, India, Laos, Mauritius, Thailand and Switzerland critically discuss these propositions in order to renew anthropology for the future. The volume concludes with an Afterword from Tim Ingold.

Author : Martin Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317630135

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Expedition into Empire by Martin Thomas Pdf

Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized. This book is the first major investigation of the conventions and social practices embedded in team-based exploration. In probing the politics of expedition making, this volume is itself a pioneering journey through the cultures of empire. With contributions from established and emerging scholars, Expedition into Empire plots the rise and transformation of expeditionary journeys from the eighteenth century until the present. Conceived as a series of spotlights on imperial travel and colonial expansion, it roves widely: from the metropolitan centers to the ends of the earth. This collection is both rigorous and accessible, containing lively case studies from writers long immersed in exploration, travel literature, and the dynamics of cross-cultural encounter.

Author : Lene Pedersen,Lisa Cliggett
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529756425

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The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology by Lene Pedersen,Lisa Cliggett Pdf

The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is the first instalment of The SAGE Handbook of the Social Sciences series and encompasses major specialities as well as key interdisciplinary themes relevant to the field. Globally, societies are facing major upheaval and change, and the social sciences are fundamental to the analysis of these issues, as well as the development of strategies for addressing them. This handbook provides a rich overview of the discipline and has a future focus whilst using international theories and examples throughout. The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is an essential resource for social scientists globally and contains a rich body of chapters on all major topics relevant to the field, whilst also presenting a possible road map for the future of the field. Part 1: Foundations Part 2: Focal Areas Part 3: Urgent Issues Part 4: Short Essays: Contemporary Critical Dynamics

Author : Regna Darnell,Frederic W. Gleach
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803256880

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Anthropologists and Their Traditions Across National Borders by Regna Darnell,Frederic W. Gleach Pdf

Volume 8 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual series, the premier series published in the history of the discipline, explores national anthropological traditions in Britain, the United States, and Europe and follows them into postnational contexts. Contributors reassess the major theorists in twentieth-century anthropology, including luminaries such as Franz Boas, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisław Malinowski, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, Marshall Sahlins, and lesser-known but important anthropological work by Berthold Laufer, A. M. Hocart, Kenelm O. L. Burridge, and Robin Ridington, among others. These essays examine myriad themes such as the pedagogical context of the anthropologist as a teller of stories about indigenous storytellers; the colonial context of British anthropological theory and its projects outside the nation state; the legacies of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism regarding culture specific patterns; cognitive universals reflected in empirical examples of kinship, myth, language, classificatory systems, and supposed universal mental structures; and the career of Marshall Sahlins and his trajectory from neo evolutionism and structuralism toward an epistemological skepticism of cross cultural miscommunication.

Author : Lara Lamb,Christopher Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031155796

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Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua by Lara Lamb,Christopher Lee Pdf

This book explores the people of the Kikori River Delta, in the Gulf of Papua, as established historical agents of intercultural exchange. One hundred years after they were made, Frank Hurley’s colonial-era photographic reproductions are returned to the descendants of the Kerewo and Urama peoples, whom he photographed. The book illuminates how the movement, use, and exchange of objects can produce distinctive and unrecognised forms of value. To understand this exchange, a nuanced history of the conditions of the exchange is necessary, which also allows a reconsideration of the colonial legacies that continue to affect the social and political worlds of people in the twenty-first century.

Author : Eduard II Schwarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z228515902

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Novara Expedition Anthropology. A System of Anthropometrical Investigations as a Means for the Differential Diagnosis of Human Races (etc.) by Eduard II Schwarz Pdf

Author : William C. Olsen,Thomas J. Csordas
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789202144

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Engaging Evil by William C. Olsen,Thomas J. Csordas Pdf

Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Author : Frederico Delgado Rosa,Han F. Vermeulen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805395669

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Ethnographers Before Malinowski by Frederico Delgado Rosa,Han F. Vermeulen Pdf

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.