Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922

Published by Berghahn Books 2022

Ethnographers Before Malinowski

Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922

Edited by: Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen

Volume 44 in the series EASA Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800735323

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About this book

Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists was in reality an era of active ethnographic fieldworkers, including women practitioners and Indigenous experts. Their accounts have multiple layers of meaning, style, and content that deserve fresh reading. This reference work is a vital source for rewriting the history of anthropology.

Author / Editor information

Frederico Delgado Rosa is lecturer at NOVA University, Lisbon (Portugal) and a researcher in the history of anthropology at CRIA Centre for Research in Anthropology (Lisbon) and HERITAGES (Paris). He is the author, among other works, of Exploradores portugueses e reis africanos [Portuguese Explorers and African Kings], with Filipe Verde (A Esfera dos Livros, 2013). He is codirector, with Christine Laurière, of BEROSE International Encyclopedia of the Histories of Anthropology.

Han F. Vermeulen is Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany, specializing in the history and theory of anthropology. He is author or editor of a dozen books, including Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment (University of Nebraska Press, 2015), which was listed by the Süddeutsche Zeitung as one of the most important books of 2016 and was awarded the ICAS Book Prize 2017 by the International Convention of Asia Scholars.

Frederico Delgado Rosa is lecturer at NOVA University, Lisbon (Portugal) and a researcher in the history of anthropology at CRIA Centre for Research in Anthropology (Lisbon) and HERITAGES (Paris). He is the author, among other works, of Exploradores portugueses e reis africanos [Portuguese Explorers and African Kings], with Filipe Verde (A Esfera dos Livros, 2013). He is codirector, with Christine Laurière, of BEROSE International Encyclopedia of the Histories of Anthropology.

Reviews

“This collection is an important event in the subfield of history of anthropology. Its editors, two well-known European scholars, have assembled an impressive collection of essays … It should be in the library of every major university.” • Andrew Lyons, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Foreword. Unearthing the Hidden Treasures of Early Ethnography Thomas Hylland Eriksen Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
Introduction Other Argonauts Chapters in the History of Pre-Malinowskian Ethnography Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I In Search of the Native’s Point of View
1 “Adapt Fully to Their Customs” Franz Boas as an Ethnographer among the Inuit of Baffinland (1883–84) and His Monograph The Central Eskimo (1888) Herbert S. Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
2 “A Sympathetic Chronicler of a Sympathetic People” Katie Langloh Parker and The Euahlayi Tribe (1905) Barbara Chambers Dawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
3 Edward Westermarck, a Master Ethnographer, and His Monograph Ritual and Belief in Morocco (1926) David Shankland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Part II The Indigenous Ethnographer’s Magic
4 Frontier Ethnography and Colonial Theology Mpengula Mbande and Marginal Informants in Henry Callaway’s The Religious System of the Amazulu (1868–70) David Chidester Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
5 At the Feet of the Lord of the Dragons Tutakangahau, Elsdon Best, and Waikare-moana: The Sea of the Rippling Waters (1897) Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
6 Partnership with a Native American Family Alice C. Fletcher, Francis La Flesche, and The Omaha Tribe (1911) Joanna Cohan Scherer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Part III Colonial Ethnography from Invasion to Empathy
7 Stepping into a Pit of Snakes John Gregory Bourke and The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona (1884) Ronald L Grimes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
8 Totemic Relics and Ancestral Fetishes Henri Trilles’s Chez les Fang , or Fifteen Years in the French Congo (1912) André Mary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
9 “The Stream Crosses the Path” Robert Sutherland Rattray and Ashanti (1923) Montgomery McFate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Part IV Expeditionary Ethnography as Intensive Fieldwork
10 From Savages to Friends Henrique de Carvalho and His Etnografia e História Tradicional dos Povos da Lunda (1890) Frederico Delgado Rosa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
11 “Do in the Tundra as the Tundra-Dwellers Do” Maria Czaplicka, Her Yenisei Expedition (1914–15), and My Siberian Year (1916) Grażyna Kubica Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376
12 Developing Fieldwork in the South American Lowlands Debates and Practices in the Work of German Ethnographers (1884–1928) Michael Kraus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
Conclusion Founders of Anthropology and Their Predecessors Han F. Vermeulen and Frederico Delgado Rosa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
Appendix Selected Bibliography of Ethnographic Accounts, ca. 1870–1922 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	474
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	502

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 540
Keywords: Anthropology (General); History (General); Colonial History

eBook

Published: June 10, 2022
ISBN: 9781800735323