Ethnographers before Malinowski : pioneers of anthropological fieldwork, 1870-1922

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Ethnographers before Malinowski : pioneers of anthropological fieldwork, 1870-1922

edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen

(The EASA series, v. 44)

Berghahn, 2022

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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.

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List of Figures Acknowledgments Foreword: Unearthing the Hidden Treasures of Early Ethnography Thomas Hylland Eriksen Introduction: . Other Argonauts: Chapters in the History of Pre-Malinowskian Ethnography Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen Part I: In Search of the Native's Point of View Chapter 1. "Adapt Fully to Their Customs": Franz Boas as an Ethnographer among the Inuit of Baffinland (1883-84) and his Monograph The Central Eskimo (1888) Herbert S. Lewis Chapter 2. "A Sympathetic Chronicler of a Sympathetic People": Katie Langloh Parker and The Euahlayi Tribe (1905) Barbara Chambers Dawson Chapter 3. Edward Westermarck, a Master Ethnographer, and his Monograph Ritual and Belief in Morocco (1926) David Shankland Part II: The Indigenous Ethnographer's Magic Chapter 4. Frontier Ethnography and Colonial Theology: Mpengula Mbande and Marginal Informants in Henry Callaway's The Religious System of the Amazulu (1868-70) David Chidester Chapter 5. At the Feet of the Lord of the Dragons: Tutakangahau, Elsdon Best, and Waikaremoana: The Sea of the Rippling Waters (1897) Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Chapter 6. Partnership with a Native American Family: Alice C. Fletcher, Francis La Flesche, and The Omaha Tribe (1911) Joanna Cohan Scherer Part III: Colonial Ethnography From Invasion to Empathy Chapter 7. Stepping into a Pit of Snakes: John Gregory Bourke and The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona (1884) Ronald L. Grimes Chapter 8. Totemic Relics and Ancestral Fetishes: Henri Trilles's Chez les Fang, or Fifteen Years in the French Congo (1912) Andre Mary Chapter 9. "The Stream Crosses the Path": Robert Sutherland Rattray and Ashanti (1923) Montgomery McFate Part IV: Expeditionary Ethnography as Intensive Fieldwork Chapter 10. From Savages to Friends: Henrique de Carvalho and his Etnografia e Historia Tradicional dos Povos da Lunda (1890) Frederico Delgado Rosa Chapter 11. "Do in the Tundra as the Tundra-Dwellers Do": Maria Czaplicka, her Yenisei Expedition (1914-15), and My Siberian Year (1916) Grazyna Kubica Chapter 12. Developing Fieldwork in the South American Lowlands: Debates and Practices in the Work of German Ethnographers (1884-1928) Michael Kraus Conclusion: Founders of Anthropology and Their Predecessors Han F. Vermeulen and Frederico Delgado Rosa Appendix: Selected Bibliography of Ethnographic Accounts, c.1870-1922 Han F. Vermeulen and Frederico Delgado Rosa Index

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