Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 336 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 488 g
A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 336 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 488 g
Reihe: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Soci
ISBN: 978-1-78533-339-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books
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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Appendix I: Unpublished reports by W.H.R. Rivers to the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust Fund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