A. C. Haddon

Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits

Volume 1, General Ethnography

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1121g
• ISBN-13: 9780521179867
• ISBN-10: 0521179866
• Artikelnr.: 32734842

Autorenporträt

Alfred Cort Haddon (1855-1940) was one of Britain's most important anthropologists and ethnologists. He founded the school of anthropology at the University of Cambridge and served as president of the following organizations: Section H (Anthropology) in the British Association meetings of 1902 and 1905; the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; the Folk Lore Society; and the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. He was also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Apart from his numerous books, Haddon also contributed several articles to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Dictionary of National Biography, and Hastings's Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: 1. Historical sketch
2. Geography and geology
3. The ethnography of the various islands
i. Western islands
ii. Central islands
iii. Eastern islands
Part II. 4. Ethnography of neighbouring areas
Part III: 5. General ethnography of Torres Straights
Bibliography.