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

    • Title:Expeditionary anthropology : teamwork, travel and the 'science of man' / edited by Martin Thomas and Amanda Harris.
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    • Published/Created:New York : Berghahn, 2018.
      ©2018
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Anthropology--Fieldwork.
    • Description:ix, 317 pages ; 24 cm
    • Series:Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 33.
    • 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.
    • ISBN:9781785337727 hardcover
      1785337726 hardcover
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Anthropology and the Field: Intermediaries and Exchange
      ch. 1 Assembling the Ethnographic Field: The 1901
      02 Expedition of Baldwin Spencer and Francis Gillen / Philip Batty
      ch. 2 Receiving Guests: The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits 1898 / Jude Philp
      ch. 3 Donald Thomson's Hybrid Expeditions: Anthropology, Biology and Narrative in Northern Australia and England / Saskia Beudel
      pt. II Exploration, Archaeology, Race and Emergent Anthropology
      ch. 4 Looking at Culture through an Artist's Eyes: William Henry Holmes and the Exploration of Native American Archaeology / Pamela M. Henson
      ch. 5 Anomalous Blonds of the Maghreb: Carleton Coon Invents the African Nordics / Warwick Anderson
      ch. 6 Medium, Genre, Indigenous Presence: Spanish Expeditionary Encounters in the Mar del Sur, 1606 / Bronwen Douglas
      ch. 7 Ethnographic Inquiry on Phillip Parker King's Hydrographic Survey / Tiffany Shellam
      pt. III Question of Gender
      ch. 8 Gender and the Expedition: Feminist Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons and the Politics of Field work in the Americas in the 1920s and 1930s / Desley Deacon
      ch. 9 What Has Been Forgotten? The Discourses of Margaret Mead and the American Museum of Natural History Sepik Expedition / Diane Losche
      ch. 10 Gender. Science and Imperial Drive: Margaret McArthur on Two Expeditions in the 1940s / Amanda Harris.
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