Expeditionary anthropology : teamwork, travel and the 'science of man'

Author(s)

• Thomas, Martin
• Harris, Amanda

Bibliographic Information

Expeditionary anthropology : teamwork, travel and the 'science of man'

edited by Martin Thomas and Amanda Harris

（Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 33）

Berghahn, 2021

• : paperback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction: Anthropology and the Expeditionary Imaginary: An Introduction to the Volume Martin Thomas and Amanda Harris PART I: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE FIELD: INTERMEDIARIES AND EXCHANGE Chapter 1. Assembling the Ethnographic Field: The 1901-02 Expedition of Baldwin Spencer and Francis Gillen Philip Batty Chapter 2. Receiving guests: The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Strait 1898 Jude Philp Chapter 3. Donald Thomson's Hybrid Expeditions: Anthropology, Biology and Narrative in Northern Australia and England Saskia Beudel PART II: EXPLORATION, ARCHAEOLOGY, RACE AND EMERGENT ANTHROPOLOGY Chapter 4. Looking at Culture through an Artist's Eyes: William Henry Holmes and the Exploration of Native American Archaeology Pamela Henson Chapter 5. The Anomalous Blonds of the Maghreb: Carleton Coon Discovers the African Nordics Warwick Anderson Chapter 6. Medium, Genre, Indigenous Presence: Spanish Expeditionary Encounters in the Mar del Sur, 1606 Bronwen Douglas Chapter 7. Ethnographic Inquiry on Phillip Parker King's Hydrographic Survey Tiffany Shellam PART III: THE QUESTION OF GENDER Chapter 8. Gender and the Expedition: Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons and the Politics of Fieldwork in the Americas in the 1920s and 1930s Desley Deacon Chapter 9. What Has Been Forgotten? The Discourses of Margaret Mead and The American Museum of Natural History Sepik Expedition Diane Losche Chapter 10. Gender, Science and Imperial Drive: Margaret McArthur on Two Expeditions in the 1940s Amanda Harris Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC12605608
• ISBN:
  • 9781800730182
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 317 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Anthropology -- Fieldwork
  • LCSH : Anthropology -- Research
  • LCSH : Scientific expeditions
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA39743834