Cambridge and the Torres Strait

Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition
Herausgeber: Anita, Herle; Rouse, Sandra; Herle, Anita

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Produktbeschreibung

Centenary volume of the Torres Strait Expedition suggesting new ways of looking at its work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780521103862
• ISBN-10: 052110386X
• Artikelnr.: 25686502

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Cambridge and the Torres Strait Anita Herle and Sandra
Rouse; 2. Haddon attends a funeral: fieldwork in Torres Strait 1888, 1898
Jeremy Beckett; 3. Expedition and institution: A. C. Haddon and
anthropology at Cambridge Sandra Rouse; 4. The life-histories of objects:
collections of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres
Strait Anita Herle; 5. Performing science: still photography and the Torres
Strait Expedition Elizabeth Edwards; 6. Getting a result: the Expedition's
psychological research 1898-1913 Graham Richards; 7. Fieldworkers and
physiologists Henrika Kuklick; 8. At the Australian-Papuan linguistic
boundary: Sidney Ray's classification of Torres Strait languages Anna
Shnukal; 9. Making sense of diversity and complexity: the ethnological
context and consequences of the Torres Strait Expedition and the Oceanic
phase in British anthropology 1890-1935 James Urry; Bibliography; Index.