The Anthropology Of Expeditions

Author : Joshua Alexander Bell,Erin L. Hasinoff
Publisher : Bard Graduate Center - Cultura
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Martin Thomas,Amanda Harris
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : 52,6 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 : 46,9 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 : A. C. Haddon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Alessandro Pezzati
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781934536223

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Adventures in Photography by Alessandro Pezzati Pdf

Since 1887 the University Museum has been one of the leading archaeology and anthropology museums in the world and has sponsored field research in every corner of the globe. A key outcome, from its first expedition to Nippur, in modern-day Iraq, through more than 300 expeditions in the past century, to its research in fifteen different countries today, has been a wealth of primary photographs capturing both expeditions and excavations and also images of modern peoples on every inhabited continent of our planet. These vintage photographs, carefully selected from hundreds of thousands, range from mundane record-keeping pictures to glorious aesthetic treats, and they are in demand by international scholars and students and researchers worldwide. One of the most powerful of media to convey information about—and to advance understanding of—foreign peoples and places is photography. Soldiers, missionaries, merchants, and other travelers carried out early anthropological photography in distant lands. Field photography was extremely difficult when the Museum began its research program in the late 1880s, requiring the transport of a complete dark room and other heavy equipment. The Museum's intrepid adventurers sought scientific accuracy, with no artifice that may have obscured the realism of the image. An engaging narrative essay highlighting the Museum's fieldwork explains the contexts of the range of photographs from the Museum's Archives and the role of photography in studying human cultures.

Author : Marianne Klemun,Ulrike Spring
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137581068

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Expeditions as Experiments by Marianne Klemun,Ulrike Spring Pdf

This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments. In treating expeditions as experiments in a heuristic sense, we also propose that the expedition is a variation on the laboratory in which different practices can be conducted and where the transformation of uncertain into certain knowledge is tested. The experimental positioning of the expedition brings together an ensemble of techniques, strategies, material agents and social actors, and illuminates the steps leading from observation to facts and documentation. The chapters show the variety of scientific interests that motivated expeditions with their focus on natural history, geology, ichthyology, botany, zoology, helminthology, speleology, physical anthropology, oceanography, meteorology and magnetism.

Author : Baldwin Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : UOM:39015077820903

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Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia: Anthropology by Baldwin Spencer Pdf

Author : A. C. Haddon,W. H. R. Rivers,C. G. Seligmann,A. Wilkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:699187378

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Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charlie Keil,Rob King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190496692

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The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema by Charlie Keil,Rob King Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is a collection of new scholarship that investigates the first decades of motion-picture history from diverse perspectives and methodologies. Featuring over thirty essays by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of cinema's earliest years while also illuminating how cinema derived strength from competing cultural forms, becoming in the process the most influential mass medium of the early twentieth century.

Author : Alfred Cort Haddon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UVA:X000299977

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Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits: Physiology and psychology by Alfred Cort Haddon Pdf

Author : Stephen Chrisomalis,André Costopoulos
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442664562

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Human Expeditions by Stephen Chrisomalis,André Costopoulos Pdf

In its 2007 obituary of Bruce Trigger (1937–2006), the Times of London referred to the Canadian anthropologist and archaeologist as “Canada’s leading prehistorian” and “one of the most influential archaeologists of his time.” Trained at Yale University and a faculty member at McGill University for more than forty years, he was best known for his History of Archaeological Thought, which the Times called “monumental.” Trigger inspired scholars all over the world through his questioning of assumptions and his engagement with social and political causes. Human Expeditions pays tribute to Trigger’s immense legacy by bringing together cutting edge work from internationally recognized and emerging researchers inspired by his example. Covering the length and breadth of Trigger’s wide-ranging interests – from Egyptology to the history of archaeological theory to North American aboriginal cultures – this volume highlights the diversity of his academic work and the magnitude of his impact in many different areas of scholarship.

Author : W. J. McGee
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0816520305

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Trails to Tibur—n by W. J. McGee Pdf

When William John McGee set out from Washington, D.C., for the Sonoran Desert in 1894, he was inspired by a passion for adventure as much as a thirst for knowledge. McGee lived in an era when discovery was made through travel rather than study, and reputations were forged by going where no outsiders had gone before. A self-taught scientist in the newly forming field of anthropology, McGee led two expeditions through southern Arizona and northern Sonora for the Bureau of American Ethnology. There he conducted ethnographic research among the Papagos (Tohono O'odham) and the Seris, and his subsequent publication The Seri Indians helped secure his place in the anthropological community. McGee's complete journals of the expeditions, kept in small field notebooks and preserved in the Library of Congress, are published here for the first time. These journals contain detailed descriptions of the country and people McGee encountered and convey the adventure of traveling through wild and unfamiliar places--including a voyage to Isla Tibur—n, or Shark Island, in the Gulf of California--and being plagued by foul weather, a shortage of supplies, and fear of attack from hostile Indians. Trails to Tibur—n features 57 historical photographs taken on the expedition, capturing the places McGee saw and the people he encountered. Fontana's notes to the diary provide useful botanical, geological, and ethnographic information, while his introduction places McGee and his field work in the context of late-nineteenth-century anthropology and science. Trails to Tibur—n reveals McGee's versatility as a field worker and shows his methods, often questioned today, to be the reasonable response of a man caught up in the intellectual fervor of his time. For anyone wanting to share in the spirit of adventure, these journals are a landmark in the annals of exploration.

Author : Gisli Palsson
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780887552533

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Travelling Passions by Gisli Palsson Pdf

Vilhjalmur Stefansson has long been known for his groundbreaking work as an anthropologist and expert on Arctic peoples. His three expeditions to the Canadian Arctic in the early 1900s, as well as his expertise in northern anthropology, helped create his public image as an heroic, Hemingway-esque figure in the annals of twentieth-century exploration. But the emotional and private life of Stefansson the man have remained hidden, until now. New evidence of this other life has recently been discovered: a collection of love letters between Stefansson and his fiance Orpha Cecil Smith were found in a New Hampshire flea market; Stefansson's field diaries have revealed elegant essays and insightful commentary on Inupiat society; baptismal records have revealed that Stefansson had a son, Alex, with his informant and guide, Fanny Pannigabluk; and through Web searches and a private detective, Palsson found and conducted interviews with the descendents of both Cecil Smith and Alex Stefansson. Travelling Passions sheds new light on Stefanssonís life and work, focussing on the tension between his private life and the theories that brought his name to the halls of fame. Palsson draws a clear, vivid, and in many ways unexpected picture of the mythical figure of Stefansson.