The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908 (Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists, Band 1) - Softcover

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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.

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