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- Book Title
- The Ethnographic Experiment
- Title
- The Ethnographic Experiment
- Subtitle
- A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
- Contributor
- Cato Berg (Edited by)
- ISBN-10
- 1782383425
- EAN
- 9781782383420
- ISBN
- 9781782383420
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Subject
- Methodology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Oceania
- Release Date
- 01/06/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Subject Area
- History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Ethnographic Experiment : A. M. Hocart and W. H. R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Series
- Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. This would have implications for Rivers' later work in psychiatry and psychology, and Hocart's work as a comparativist, for which both would largely be remembered despite the novelty of that independent fieldwork on remote Pacific islands in the early years of the 20th Century. Contributors to this volume--who have all carried out fieldwork in those Melanesian locations where Hocart and Rivers worked--give a critical examination of the research that took place in 1908, situating those efforts in the broadest possible contexts of colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly practice within and beyond anthropology.
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Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1782383425
ISBN-13
9781782383420
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202489065
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Ethnographic Experiment : A. M. Hocart and W. H. R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Methodology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Oceania
Publication Year
2014
Series
Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2013-044575
Series Volume Number
1
Lc Classification Number
Gn671.S6e47 2014
Volume Number
Vol. 1
Reviews
"[With this] very cohesive set of essays, Hviding and Berg h ave done an excellent job lifting an important expedition out of the archival oblivion where it reposed for the better part of a century. This is an appropriate volume to introduce the new Pacific Perspectives series. As such, this work appeals to readers interested in the histories of anthropology and Pacific worlds." · Oceania "Mere scholars and no novelists here, volume contributors nonetheless have good biographical stories to tell, good ethnographic tales to recall." · Anthropological Forum "Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg's new edited collection on the neglected Melanesian expedition on 1908 is timely and important." · Anthropology Review Database "It has been quite a while since I encountered a collection of essays that was as well coordinated, topically consistent, and thematically linked as this one. The end result is an intellectually rigorous examination of an overlooked but nonetheless extremely important event in the history of anthropology... The volume, taken as a whole, has a refreshingly critical and reflective quality about it." · David Hanlon, University of Hawai'i at MÄ�noa "This compelling volume invites readers to imagine what the discipline might have been like if this expedition had been taken as a foundational moment in the discipline's history. It is an alternative to Malinowskian myth of the heroic individual fieldworker isolated on a beach watching the boat go away." · Debra McDougall, University of Western Australia, "[With this] very cohesive set of essays, Hviding and Berg h ave done an excellent job lifting an important expedition out of the archival oblivion where it reposed for the better part of a century. This is an appropriate volume to introduce the new Pacific Perspectives series. As such, this work appeals to readers interested in the histories of anthropology and Pacific worlds." Oceania "Mere scholars and no novelists here, volume contributors nonetheless have good biographical stories to tell, good ethnographic tales to recall." Anthropological Forum "Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg's new edited collection on the neglected Melanesian expedition on 1908 is timely and important." Anthropology Review Database "It has been quite a while since I encountered a collection of essays that was as well coordinated, topically consistent, and thematically linked as this one. The end result is an intellectually rigorous examination of an overlooked but nonetheless extremely important event in the history of anthropology... The volume, taken as a whole, has a refreshingly critical and reflective quality about it." David Hanlon, University of Hawai'i at Manoa "This compelling volume invites readers to imagine what the discipline might have been like if this expedition had been taken as a foundational moment in the discipline's history. It is an alternative to Malinowskian myth of the heroic individual fieldworker isolated on a beach watching the boat go away." Debra McDougall, University of Western Australia, "Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg's new edited collection on the neglected Melanesian expedition on 1908 is timely and important." · Anthropology Review Database "It has been quite a while since I encountered a collection of essays that was as well coordinated, topically consistent, and thematically linked as this one. The end result is an intellectually rigorous examination of an overlooked but nonetheless extremely important event in the history of anthropology... The volume, taken as a whole, has a refreshingly critical and reflective quality about it." · David Hanlon, University of Hawai'i at MÄ�noa "This compelling volume invites readers to imagine what the discipline might have been like if this expedition had been taken as a foundational moment in the discipline's history. It is an alternative to Malinowskian myth of the heroic individual fieldworker isolated on a beach watching the boat go away." · Debra McDougall, University of Western Australia, "[With this] very cohesive set of essays, Hviding and Berg h ave done an excellent job lifting an important expedition out of the archival oblivion where it reposed for the better part of a century. This is an appropriate volume to introduce the new Pacific Perspectives series. As such, this work appeals to readers interested in the histories of anthropology and Pacific worlds." Oceania "Mere scholars and no novelists here, volume contributors nonetheless have good biographical stories to tell, good ethnographic tales to recall." Anthropological Forum "Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg's new edited collection on the neglected Melanesian expedition on 1908 is timely and important." Anthropology Review Database "It has been quite a while since I encountered a collection of essays that was as well coordinated, topically consistent, and thematically linked as this one. The end result is an intellectually rigorous examination of an overlooked but nonetheless extremely important event in the history of anthropology... The volume, taken as a whole, has a refreshingly critical and reflective quality about it." David Hanlon, University of Hawai'i at MÄ�noa "This compelling volume invites readers to imagine what the discipline might have been like if this expedition had been taken as a foundational moment in the discipline's history. It is an alternative to Malinowskian myth of the heroic individual fieldworker isolated on a beach watching the boat go away." Debra McDougall, University of Western Australia, "[With this] very cohesive set of essays, Hviding and Berg h ave done an excellent job lifting an important expedition out of the archival oblivion where it reposed for the better part of a century. This is an appropriate volume to introduce the new Pacific Perspectives series. As such, this work appeals to readers interested in the histories of anthropology and Pacific worlds." · Oceania "Mere scholars and no novelists here, volume contributors nonetheless have good biographical stories to tell, good ethnographic tales to recall." · Anthropological Forum "Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg's new edited collection on the neglected Melanesian expedition on 1908 is timely and important." · Anthropology Review Database "It has been quite a while since I encountered a collection of essays that was as well coordinated, topically consistent, and thematically linked as this one. The end result is an intellectually rigorous examination of an overlooked but nonetheless extremely important event in the history of anthropology... The volume, taken as a whole, has a refreshingly critical and reflective quality about it." · David Hanlon, University of Hawai'i at Manoa "This compelling volume invites readers to imagine what the discipline might have been like if this expedition had been taken as a foundational moment in the discipline's history. It is an alternative to Malinowskian myth of the heroic individual fieldworker isolated on a beach watching the boat go away." · Debra McDougall, University of Western Australia, "It has been quite a while since I encountered a collection of essays that was as well coordinated, topically consistent, and thematically linked as this one. The end result is an intellectually rigorous examination of an overlooked but nonetheless extremely important event in the history of anthropology... The volume, taken as a whole, has a refreshingly critical and reflective quality about it." · David Hanlon, University of Hawai'i at MÄ�noa "This compelling volume invites readers to imagine what the discipline might have been like if this expedition had been taken as a foundational moment in the discipline's history. It is an alternative to Malinowskian myth of the heroic individual fieldworker isolated on a beach watching the boat go away." · Debra McDougall, University of Western Australia
Table of Content
List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: The Ethnographic Experiment in Island Melanesia Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg Chapter 1. Acknowledging Ancestors: The Vexations of Representation Christine Dureau Chapter 2. Across the New Georgia Group: A.M. Hocart's Fieldwork as Inter-Island Practice Edvard Hviding Chapter 3. The Genealogical Method: Vella Lavella Reconsidered Cato Berg Chapter 4. Rivers and the Study of Kinship in Ambrym: Mother Right and Father Right Revisited Knut M. Rio and Annelin Eriksen Chapter 5. House Upon Pacific Sand: W.H.R. Rivers and his 1908 Ethnographic 'Survey Work' Thorgeir S. Kolshus Chapter 6. Colonialism as Shell-Shock: W.H.R. Rivers's Explanations for Depopulation in Melanesia Tim Bayliss-Smith Chapter 7. A Vanishing People or a Vanishing Discourse? W.H.R. Rivers's 'Psychological Factor' and Depopulation in the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides Judith A. Bennett Chapter 8. Objects and Photographs from the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition Tim Thomas Appendix I: Unpublished reports by W.H.R. Rivers to the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust Fund Transcribed by Tim Bayliss-Smith Appendix II: Materials in archives from the 1908 fieldwork in Island Melanesia Cato Berg Appendix III: Planning the Expedition: Letters Written before the Fieldwork Began
Copyright Date
2014
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