Expeditionary Anthropology

Martin Thomas is Professor of History at the Australian National University and Co-Director of the Menzies Australia Institute at King’s College London. His publications include The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist (2011) and Expedition into Empire: Exploratory Journeys and the Making of the Modern World (2015), with the former winning the National Biography Award of Australia.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Anthropology and the Expeditionary Imaginary: An Introduction to the VolumeMartin Thomas and Amanda HarrisPART I: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE FIELD: INTERMEDIARIES AND EXCHANGEChapter 1. Assembling the Ethnographic Field: The 1901-02 Expedition of Baldwin Spencer and Francis GillenPhilip BattyChapter 2. Receiving guests: The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Strait 1898Jude PhilpChapter 3. Donald Thomson’s Hybrid Expeditions: Anthropology, Biology and Narrative in Northern Australia and EnglandSaskia BeudelPART II: EXPLORATION, ARCHAEOLOGY, RACE AND EMERGENT ANTHROPOLOGYChapter 4. Looking at Culture through an Artist’s Eyes: William Henry Holmes and the Exploration of Native American ArchaeologyPamela HensonChapter 5. The Anomalous Blonds of the Maghreb: Carleton Coon Discovers the African NordicsWarwick AndersonChapter 6. Medium, Genre, Indigenous Presence: Spanish Expeditionary Encounters in the Mar del Sur, 1606Bronwen DouglasChapter 7. Ethnographic Inquiry on Phillip Parker King’s Hydrographic SurveyTiffany ShellamPART III: THE QUESTION OF GENDERChapter 8. Gender and the Expedition: Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons and the Politics of Fieldwork in the Americas in the 1920s and 1930sDesley DeaconChapter 9. What Has Been Forgotten? The Discourses of Margaret Mead and The American Museum of Natural History Sepik ExpeditionDiane LoscheChapter 10. Gender, Science and Imperial Drive: Margaret McArthur on Two Expeditions in the 1940sAmanda HarrisIndex

“Martin Thomas and Amanda Harris’s edited volume makes important steps towards understanding the history of the sociopolitical formations that are embedded in, and around, the idea of the expedition.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)“Expeditionary Anthropology emerges as an extraordinary book, with unexpected insights that demonstrate the vitality and relevance of the sub-disciplinary field of the history of anthropology. There is no doubt that it deserves a place on the bookshelves of every scholar interested in the subject.” • The Journal of Pacific History“This distinctive volume represents a genuinely interesting set of contributions to scholarship in anthropology, literary studies, history, and the history of science.” • Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge“Scholars of exploration and the history of anthropology will find this book very useful—the approach put forward by Thomas and Harris is novel and important.” • Michael F. Robinson, University of Hartford