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July 1, 1999Choice Reviews Online160 citations

Cambridge and the Torres Strait: centenary essays on the 1898 anthropological expedition

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Key Points

  • The aim is to explore the implications and outcomes of the 1898 anthropological expedition to the Torres Strait.
  • Essays presented by various scholars analyzing different aspects of the expedition.
  • Focus on fieldwork, object collections, psychological research, and linguistic classifications.
  • Consideration of the ethnological and historical impact on British anthropology.
  • Diverse perspectives on the expedition's contributions to anthropology were highlighted.
  • Importance of object collections and their role in understanding cultural diversity was emphasized.
  • Psychological research findings and linguistic classifications revealed complexities of Torres Strait societies.

Abstract

Introduction: Cambridge and the Torres Strait 2. Haddon attends a funeral: fieldwork in Torres Strait, 1888, 1898 Anita Herle 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 Jeremy Beckett 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.

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