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Klappentext Centenary volume of the Torres Strait Expedition suggesting new ways of looking at its work. Zusammenfassung Torres Strait has an established place in the history of anthropology because of its association with the Cambridge University Expedition of 1898 organised by A. C. Haddon. The nine interdisciplinary essays in this centenary volume offer ways of looking at and situation the Expedition's work in historical and intellectual debates. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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; Bibliography; Index.
