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Cambridge and the Torres Strait : centenary essays on the 1898 anthropological expedition / edited by Anita Herle and Sandra Rouse.

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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998Description: xv, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN: 0521584612 (hc)Subject(s): Anthropology -- Great Britain -- History | Anthropology -- Fieldwork -- Australia -- Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) | Torres Strait Islanders -- Material culture | Torres Strait Islanders -- Social life and customs | Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) -- Description and travelDDC classification: 306.09943

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University	306.09943 HER/C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		46696

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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.

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