The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older tradition of team-based social research has been largely eclipsed.Expeditionary Anthropology argues that expeditions have much to tell us about anthropologists and the people they studied. The book charts the diversity of anthropological expeditions and analyzes the often passionate arguments they provoked. Drawing on recent developments in gender studies, indigenous studies, and the history of science, the book argues that even today, the science of man is deeply inscribed by its connections with expeditionary travel.

Amanda Harris is Senior Research Fellow at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney and Director of the Sydney Unit of the digital archive PARADISEC (Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures). Her bookRepresenting Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-70 was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2020. Her edited bookCirculating Cultures: Exchanges of Australian Indigenous Music, Dance and Media was published in 2014.

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Introduction: Anthropology and the Expeditionary Imaginary: An Introduction to the VolumeMartin Thomas and Amanda Harris

PART I: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE FIELD: INTERMEDIARIES AND EXCHANGE

Chapter 1.Assembling the Ethnographic Field: The 1901-02 Expedition of Baldwin Spencer and Francis GillenPhilip Batty

Chapter 2.Receiving guests: The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Strait 1898Jude Philp

Chapter 3.Donald Thomsons Hybrid Expeditions: Anthropology, Biology and Narrative in Northern Australia and EnglandSaskia Beudel

PART II: EXPLORATION, ARCHAEOLOGY, RACE AND EMERGENT ANTHROPOLOGY

Chapter 4.Looking at Culture through an Artists Eyes: William Henry Holmes and the Exploration of Native American ArchaeologyPamela Henson

Chapter 5.The Anomalous Blonds of the Maghreb: Carleton Coon Discovers the African NordicsWarwick Anderson

Chapter 6.Medium, Genre, Indigenous Presence: Spanish Expeditionary Encounters in the Mar del Sur, 1606Bronwen Douglas

Chapter 7.Ethnographic Inquiry on Phillip Parker Kings Hydrographic SurveyTiffany Shellam

PART III: THE QUESTION OF GENDER

Chapter 8.Gender and the Expedition: Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons and the Politics of Fieldwork in the Americas in the 1920s and 1930sDesley Deacon

Chapter 9.What Has Been Forgotten? The Discourses of Margaret Mead and The American Museum of Natural History Sepik ExpeditionDiane Losche

Chapter 10.Gender, Science and Imperial Drive: Margaret McArthur on Two Expeditions in the 1940sAmanda Harris

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