Edvard (Hrsg.) Hviding

The Ethnographic Experiment

A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908

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In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. This would have implications for Rivers' later work in psychiatry and psychology, and Hocart's work as a comparativist, for which both would largely be remembered despite the novelty of that independent fieldwork on remote Pacific islands in the e… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Berg, Cato (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78238-343-7
EAN: 9781782383437
Produktnummer: 21412822
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'236 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 1

Über den Autor

Cato Berg is an Associate Senior Scholar of the Bergen Pacific Studies Research Group. He has a PhD from the University of Bergen, where he has also held positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lecturer in anthropology. His research experience from Solomon Islands includes fieldwork both in Honiara and on the island of Vella Lavella. He has recently studied how localized forms of hierarchy, kinship, and land tenure are transformed in engagements with a Westminster-based legal system inherited from the nation's colonial past.