| Description |
xv, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Cambridge and the Torres Strait / Anita Herle and Sandra Rouse -- 2. Haddon attends a funeral: fieldwork in Torres Strait, 1888, 1898 / Jeremy Beckett -- 3. Expedition and institution: A. C. Haddon and anthropology at Cambridge / Sandra Rouse -- 4. The life-histories of objects: collections of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait / Anita Herle -- 5. Performing science: still photography and the Torres Strait Expedition / Elizabeth Edwards -- 6. Getting a result: the Expedition's psychological research 1898-1913 / Graham Richards -- 7. Fieldworkers and physiologists / Henrika Kuklick -- 8. At the Australian-Papuan linguistic boundary: Sidney Ray's classification of Torres Strait languages / Anna Shnukal -- 9. Making sense of diversity and complexity: the ethnological context and consequences of the Torres Strait Expedition and the Oceanic phase in British anthropology, 1890-1935 / James Urry |
| Summary |
Collection of nine papers examining aspects of the Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Strait, 1898; social and historical context of the expedition; papers by Jeremy Beckett, Sandra Rouse, Anita Herle, Elizabeth Edwards, Graham Richards, Henrika Kuklick, Anna Shnukal, James Urry annotated separately |
| Notes |
Torres Strait Islander content |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-249) and index |
| Subject |
Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940 -- Travel -- Australia -- Queensland -- Torres Strait Islands
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Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940 -- Travel -- Australia -- Torres Strait Islands (Qld.)
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Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940.
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University of Cambridge. Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology -- History.
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Anthropology -- Fieldwork -- Australia -- Torres Strait Islands (Qld.)
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Anthropology -- Fieldwork -- Australia -- Queensland.
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Anthropology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Material culture.
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Torres Strait Islanders -- Social life and customs.
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| SUBJECT |
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 -- 1891-1901
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Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85136144 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
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| Author |
Herle, Anita, 1956-
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Rouse, Sandra, 1950-
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| LC no. |
97042217 |
| ISBN |
052110386X (paperback) |
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0521584612 |
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9780521103862 (paperback) |
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9780521584616 (hc) |
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