Expeditionary anthropology : teamwork, travel and the ''science of man'' /

The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older tradition of team-based social research has been largely eclipsed. Expeditionary Anthropology argues that expeditions have much to tell us about anthropolog...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Thomas, Martin (Editor), Harris, Amanda (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Series:Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 33.
Subjects:
Anthropology > Research.
Anthropology > Fieldwork.
Scientific expeditions.
Anthropologie > Recherche.
Anthropologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Expéditions scientifiques.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Anthropology > Fieldwork
Anthropology > Research
Scientific expeditions
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Anthropology and the expeditionary imaginary : an introduction to the volume
  • Part I. Anthropology and the field: intermediaries and exchange. Chapter 1. Assembling the ethnographic field ; Chapter 2. Receiving guests ; Chapter 3. Donald Thomson's hybrid expeditions
  • Part II. Exploration, archaeology, race and emergent anthropology. Chapter 4. Looking at culture through an artist's eyes ; Chapter 5. The anomalous blonds of the Maghreb ; Chapter 6. Medium, genre, Indigenous presence ; Chapter 7. Ethnographic inquiry on Phillip Parker King's hydrographic survey
  • Part III. The question of gender. Chapter 8. Gender and the expedition ; Chapter 9. What has been forgotten? ; Chapter 10. Gender, science and imperial drive
  • Index.

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