Fills a gap in the history of anthropology by examining the role of expeditions in structuring both anthropological inquiry and its antecedent forms of human research. It does this by providing a long-term historical perspective, beginning in the seventeenth century and following it through until the middle of the twentieth century.
Addresses the gendered nature of expeditions, a perspective that is lacking from existing literature.
Addresses the role of travel and adventure in shaping anthropological thinking.
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Introduction: Anthropology and the Expeditionary Imaginary: An Introduction to the Volume
Martin Thomas and Amanda Harris
PART I: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE FIELD: INTERMEDIARIES AND EXCHANGE
Chapter 1. Assembling the Ethnographic Field: The 1901-02 Expedition of Baldwin Spencer and Francis Gillen
Philip Batty
Chapter 2. Receiving guests: The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Strait 1898
Jude Philp
Chapter 3. Donald Thomson's Hybrid Expeditions: Anthropology, Biology and Narrative in Northern Australia and England
Saskia Beudel
PART II: EXPLORATION, ARCHAEOLOGY, RACE AND EMERGENT ANTHROPOLOGY
Chapter 4. Looking at Culture through an Artist's Eyes: William Henry Holmes and the Exploration of Native American Archaeology
Pamela Henson
Chapter 5. The Anomalous Blonds of the Maghreb: Carleton Coon Discovers the African Nordics
Warwick Anderson
Chapter 6. Medium, Genre, Indigenous Presence: Spanish Expeditionary Encounters in the Mar del Sur, 1606
Bronwen Douglas
Chapter 7. Ethnographic Inquiry on Phillip Parker King's Hydrographic Survey
Tiffany Shellam
PART III: THE QUESTION OF GENDER
Chapter 8. Gender and the Expedition: Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons and the Politics of Fieldwork in the Americas in the 1920s and 1930s
Desley Deacon
Chapter 9. What Has Been Forgotten? The Discourses of Margaret Mead and The American Museum of Natural History Sepik Expedition
Diane Losche
Chapter 10. Gender, Science and Imperial Drive: Margaret McArthur on Two Expeditions in the 1940s
Amanda Harris
Index
