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Concentrates on the neglected work by two such important early 20th-century scholars as Rivers and Hocart in Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia.
Examines a little-known research effort that was to provide major foundations for the development of cross-cultural method and anthropology as a modern discipline based on participant observation
Gives a unique examination of the relationships between early anthropology and the politics of colonialism and empire.
A rare example of leading present-day scholars in anthropology and related disciplines re-visiting the fieldwork localities of early 20th-century anthropology; all the book’s contributors have themselves carried out major fieldwork in the locations where Hocart and Rivers worked.
Table des matières
List of illustrations¿
Preface¿
Acknowledgements¿
Contributors
Introduction: The Ethnographic Experiment in Island Melanesiä
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 Melanesiä
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¿Tim Thomas Appendix I: Unpublished reports by W.H.R. Rivers to the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust Fund¿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 Melanesiä
Cato Berg Appendix III: Planning the Expedition: Letters Written before the Fieldwork Began
A propos de l'auteur
Edvard Hviding is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Director of the Bergen Pacific Studies Research Group, and Coordinator of the EU-funded European Consortium for Pacific Studies. Among his publications are Guardians of Marovo Lagoon (1996), Islands of Rainforest (with T. Bayliss-Smith, 2000), Reef and Rainforest: An Environmental Encyclopedia of Marovo Lagoon (2005) and Made in Oceania (co-edited with K.M. Rio, 2011). In 2010, Hviding was awarded the Solomon Islands Medal for his development of vernacular education programmes in the Marovo language.
Cato Berg is an Associate Senior Scholar of the Bergen Pacific Studies Research Group. He has a PhD from the University of Bergen, where he has also held positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lecturer in anthropology. His research experience from Solomon Islands includes fieldwork both in Honiara and on the island of Vella Lavella. He has recently studied how localized forms of hierarchy, kinship, and land tenure are transformed in engagements with a Westminster-based legal system inherited from the nation’s colonial past.
Résumé
In 1908, A.M. Hocart and W.H. Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology.
