The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908

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...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Berghahn Books 2014
Schriftenreihe:Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists 1
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Zusammenfassung: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 indepe
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ISBN:9781782383420
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