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In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse 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 early years of the 20th Century. Contributors to this volume - who have all carried out fieldwork in those Melanesian locations where Hocart and Rivers worked - give a critical examination of the research that took place in 1908, situating those efforts in the broadest possible contexts of colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly practice within and beyond anthropology.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Ethnographic Experiment
• Author: Cato Berg, Edvard Hviding
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9781782383420
• ISBN: 1782383425
• ID: 04845306
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 620 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 159 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2014

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