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Anthropology's Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935 (Perspectives on the Global Past)
Rainer F Buschmann
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Hardcover. Explores the resulting interactions between German colonial officials, resident ethnographic collectors, and indigenous peoples, arguing that all were instrumental in the formation of anthropological theory. This book shows how ethnological collecting, often a competitive affair, could become politicized and connect to national concerns. Series: Perspectives on the Global Past. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJM; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Anthropologists and world historians make strange bedfellows. Although the latter frequently employ anthropological methods in their descriptions of cross-cultural exchanges, the former have raised substantial reservations about global approaches to history. Fearing loss of specificity, anthropologists object to the effacing qualities of techniques employed by world historians - this despite the fact that anthropology itself was a global, comparative enterprise in the nineteenth century.Rainer Buschmann here seeks to recover some of anthropology's global flavor by viewing its history in Oceania through the notion of the ethnographic frontier - the furthermost limits of the anthropologically known regions of the Pacific. The ... Read more
Anthropologists and world historians make strange bedfellows. Although the latter frequently employ anthropological methods in their descriptions of cross-cultural exchanges, the former have raised substantial reservations about global approaches to history. Fearing loss of specificity, anthropologists object to the effacing qualities of techniques employed by world historians - this despite the fact that anthropology itself was a global, comparative enterprise in the nineteenth century.Rainer Buschmann here seeks to recover some of anthropology's global flavor by viewing its history in Oceania through the notion of the ethnographic frontier - the furthermost limits of the anthropologically known regions of the Pacific. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives on the Global Past
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824831844
SKU
V9780824831844
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About Rainer F Buschmann
Rainer F. Buschmann is associate professor of history and founding faculty member at California State University, Channel Island.
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