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German ethnography in Australia /

The contribution of German ethnography to Australian anthropological scholarship on Aboriginal societies and cultures has been limited, primarily because few people working in the field read German. But it has also been neglected because its humanistic concerns with language, religion and mythology...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Peterson, Nicolas (Editor ), Myers, Fred R., 1948- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, [2017]
Colección:Monographs in anthropology series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The German-language tradition of ethnography in Australia / Nicolas Peterson and Anna Kenny
  • German-language anthropology traditions around 1900: Their methodological relevance for ethnographers in Australia and beyond / André Gingrich
  • Part I: First encounters. Clamor Schürmann's contribution to the ethnographic record for Eyre Peninsula, South Australia / Kim McCaul
  • Pulcaracuranie: Losing and finding a cosmic centre with the help of J.G. Reuther and others / Rod Lucas and Deane Fergie
  • Looking at some details of Reuther's work / Luise Hercus
  • German Moravian missionaries on western Cape York Peninsula and their perception of the local Aboriginal people and languages / Corinna Erckenbrecht
  • Part II: Impact of the Aranda. Early ethnographic work at the Hermannsburg Mission in Central Australia, 1877-1910 / Anna Kenny
  • Sigmund Freud, Géza Róheim and the Strehlows: Oedipal tales from Central Australian anthropology / John Morton
  • Of kinships and other things: T.G.H. Strehlow in Central Australia / Diane Austin-Broos
  • 'Only the best is good enough for eternity': Revisiting the ethnography of T.G.H. Strehlow / Jason Gibson
  • Part III: Widening the interest. The Australianist work of Erhard Eylmann in comparative perspective / Francesca Merlan
  • Herbert Basedow (1881-1933): Surgeon, geologist, naturalist and anthropologist / David Kaus
  • Father Worms's contribution to Australian Aboriginal anthropology / William B. McGregor
  • Historicising culture: Father Ernst Worms and the German anthropological traditions / Regina Ganter
  • Part IV: Academic anthropology. Doing research in the Kimberley and carrying ideological baggage: A personal journey / Erich Kolig
  • Tracks and shadows: Some social effects of the 1938 Frobenius Expedition to the north-west Kimberley / Anthony Redmond
  • Carl Georg von Brandenstein's legacy: The past in the present / Nick Thieberger
  • The end of an era: Ronald Berndt and the German ethnographic tradition / Nicolas Peterson.