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The Ethnographic Experiment - A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908 (Hardcover)
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The Ethnographic Experiment - A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908 (Hardcover)
Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists
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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 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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