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List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Unearthing the Hidden Treasures of Early Ethnography
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Introduction: . Other Argonauts: Chapters in the History of Pre-Malinowskian Ethnography
Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen
Part I: In Search of the Native’s Point of View
Chapter 1. “Adapt Fully to Their Customs”: Franz Boas as an Ethnographer among the Inuit of Baffinland (1883–84) and his Monograph The Central Eskimo (1888)
Herbert S. Lewis
Chapter 2. “A Sympathetic Chronicler of a Sympathetic People”: Katie Langloh Parker and The Euahlayi Tribe (1905)
Barbara Chambers Dawson
Chapter 3. Edward Westermarck, a Master Ethnographer, and his Monograph Ritual and Belief in Morocco (1926)
David Shankland
Part II: The Indigenous Ethnographer’s Magic
Chapter 4. Frontier Ethnography and Colonial Theology: Mpengula Mbande and Marginal Informants in Henry Callaway’s The Religious System of the Amazulu (1868–70)
David Chidester
Chapter 5. At the Feet of the Lord of the Dragons: Tutakangahau, Elsdon Best, and Waikaremoana: The Sea of the Rippling Waters (1897)
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
Chapter 6. Partnership with a Native American Family: Alice C. Fletcher, Francis La Flesche, and The Omaha Tribe (1911)
Joanna Cohan Scherer
Part III: Colonial Ethnography From Invasion to Empathy
Chapter 7. Stepping into a Pit of Snakes: John Gregory Bourke and The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona (1884)
Ronald L. Grimes
Chapter 8. Totemic Relics and Ancestral Fetishes: Henri Trilles’s Chez les Fang, or Fifteen Years in the French Congo (1912)
André Mary
Chapter 9. “The Stream Crosses the Path”: Robert Sutherland Rattray and Ashanti (1923)
Montgomery McFate
Part IV: Expeditionary Ethnography as Intensive Fieldwork
Chapter 10. From Savages to Friends: Henrique de Carvalho and his Etnografia e História Tradicional dos Povos da Lunda (1890)
Frederico Delgado Rosa
Chapter 11. “Do in the Tundra as the Tundra-Dwellers Do”: Maria Czaplicka, her Yenisei Expedition (1914–15), and My Siberian Year (1916)
Grażyna Kubica
Chapter 12. Developing Fieldwork in the South American Lowlands: Debates and Practices in the Work of German Ethnographers (1884–1928)
Michael Kraus
Conclusion: Founders of Anthropology and Their Predecessors
Han F. Vermeulen and Frederico Delgado Rosa
Appendix: Selected Bibliography of Ethnographic Accounts, c.1870–1922
Han F. Vermeulen and Frederico Delgado Rosa
Index
Ethnographers Before Malinowski
Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922
Edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen
Foreword by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
540 pages, 29 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-531-6 Hb Published (June 2022)
eISBN 978-1-80539-566-9 eBook