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Edvard Hviding (Ed.) - The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908 - 9781782383420 - V9781782383420
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The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908

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Description for The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908 Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Hviding, Edvard; Berg, Cato. Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society of Oceanists. Num Pages: 308 pages, 20 ills. BIC Classification: 1MKL; 3JJC; HBJM; HBLW; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.

In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. This would have implications for Rivers’ later work in psychiatry and psychology, and Hocart’s work as a comparativist, for which both would largely be remembered despite the novelty of that independent fieldwork on remote Pacific islands in the early ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society of Oceanists
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782383420
SKU
V9781782383420
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Ref
99-15

About Edvard Hviding (Ed.)
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 ... Read more

Reviews for The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
“[With this] very cohesive set of essays, Hviding and Berg h ave done an excellent job lifting an important expedition out of the archival oblivion where it reposed for the better part of a century. This is an appropriate volume to introduce the new Pacific Perspectives series. As such, this work appeals to readers interested in the histories of anthropology ... Read more

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