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The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908

The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908

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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.

Table of Contents:
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Tim Thomas Appendix I: Unpublished reports by W.H.R. Rivers to the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust Fund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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781782383420
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1782383425
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 666 gr


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