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Cambridge and the Torres Strait : centenary essays on the 1898 anthropological expedition / edited by Anita Herle and Sandra Rouse. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. - xv, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

1. Introduction: Cambridge and the Torres Strait
2. Haddon attends a funeral: fieldwork in Torres Strait, 1888, 1898 Anita Herle
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 Jeremy Beckett
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.

ISBN: 0521584612 (hc)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Anthropology--History--Great Britain
Anthropology--Fieldwork--Australia--Torres Strait Islands (Qld.)
Torres Strait Islanders--Material culture.
Torres Strait Islanders--Social life and customs.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Torres Strait Islands (Qld.)--Description and travel.

Dewey Class. No.: 306.09943 / HER/C