ISBN:
9781782383437
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
336 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists 1
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. This would have implications for Rivers' later work in psychiatry and psychology, and Hocart's work as a comparativist, for which both would largely be remembered despite the novelty of that independent fieldwork on remote Pacific islands in the early years of the 20th Century. Contributors to this volume-who have all carried out fieldwork in those Melanesian locations where Hocart and Rivers worked-give a critical examination of the research that took place in 1908, situating those efforts in the broadest possible contexts of colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly practice within and beyond anthropology.
Description / Table of Contents:
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 Objects and Photographs from the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition -- Tim Thomas -- -- Appendix I: Unpublished reports by W.H.R. Rivers to the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust Fund -- Transcribed by Tim Bayliss-Smith -- -- Appendix II: Materials in archives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 --
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