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No family better represents the overlapping roles of administrator
and scientist in the British empire than the Roths. Descended from
a Hungarian emigrant to Australia, two generations of Roths served
the empire on four continents and, at the same time, produced
ethnographic, archaeological, and linguistic studies that form the
basis for much modern research. This volume assesses the
often-conflicting roles and contributions of the Roths as
government servants and anthropologists. Most of the volume deals
with Walter E. Roth, who developed foundational studies of both the
Australian Aborigines-considered to be among the first systematic
ethnographies anywhere-and South American tribes while serving as
Chief Protector of Aborigines in Queensland and later medical
officer, magistrate, museum curator and indigenous relations
officer in British Guyana. Henry Ling Roth's contributions to the
anthropology of Tasmania, Benin, Sarawak, and New Zealand are also
enumerated, as are the publications and administrative activities
of the succeeding generation of Roths. This volume serves the
reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial
history, and an important introduction to the history of
anthropology.
No family better represents the overlapping roles of administrator
and scientist in the British empire than the Roths. Descended from
a Hungarian emigrant to Australia, two generations of Roths served
the empire on four continents and, at the same time, produced
ethnographic, archaeological, and linguistic studies that form the
basis for much modern research. This volume assesses the
often-conflicting roles and contributions of the Roths as
government servants and anthropologists. Most of the volume deals
with Walter E. Roth, who developed foundational studies of both the
Australian Aborigines-considered to be among the first systematic
ethnographies anywhere-and South American tribes while serving as
Chief Protector of Aborigines in Queensland and later medical
officer, magistrate, museum curator and indigenous relations
officer in British Guyana. Henry Ling Roth's contributions to the
anthropology of Tasmania, Benin, Sarawak, and New Zealand are also
enumerated, as are the publications and administrative activities
of the succeeding generation of Roths. This volume serves the
reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial
history, and an important introduction to the history of
anthropology.
This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which
writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons,
collectively understood as "tropical weather." Historically,
literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of
symbolic language and technical device, making use of violent
storms in the form of plot, drama, trope, and image in order to
highlight their relationship to the political, social, and
psychological realms of human affairs. Charting this relationship
through writers such as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Gisele
Pineau, and other writers from places like Australia, Japan,
Mauritius, the Caribbean, and the Philippines, this ground-breaking
collection of essays illuminates the specificities of the ways
local, national, and regional communities have made sense and even
relied upon the literary to endure the devastation caused by deadly
tropical weather.
This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which
writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons,
collectively understood as "tropical weather." Historically,
literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of
symbolic language and technical device, making use of violent
storms in the form of plot, drama, trope, and image in order to
highlight their relationship to the political, social, and
psychological realms of human affairs. Charting this relationship
through writers such as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Gisele
Pineau, and other writers from places like Australia, Japan,
Mauritius, the Caribbean, and the Philippines, this ground-breaking
collection of essays illuminates the specificities of the ways
local, national, and regional communities have made sense and even
relied upon the literary to endure the devastation caused by deadly
tropical weather.
The British Empire drew on the talents of many remarkable figures,
whose lives reveal a wonderfully rich involvement with the crucial
issues of the period. In many cases they left a legacy of travel
writing, novels, biography and ethnography which made important
contributions to our knowledge of other cultures."Writing, Travel
and Empire" explores the lives and writings of eight such figures,
including Sir George Grey, Gertrude Bell, Sir Hugh Clifford, and
Roger Casement. All travelled the Empire - from Grey, the renowned
colonial governor who undertook dangerous journeys to the interior
of Australia, to Tom Harrisson, the emaciated polymath, war hero
and Arctic explorer, whose time in the New Hebrides embraced both
cannibalistic rituals and a meeting with film legend Douglas
Fairbanks Sr, who sought Harrisson out for a Hollywood feature
about savage life.All saw themselves as writers, despite their very
different approaches and interests, and each was writing against a
backdrop of the impending disappearance of indigenous cultures
around the world. Writing from the margins of what was shortly to
become the more formalised discipline of anthropology, their work
yields interesting insights into both the issues of empire and the
ways in which academic disciplines define the boundaries of their
subject. Embracing themes such as gender and travel, racial
science, the globalisation of 'native management' and the internal
colonies, and with a geographical coverage that extends from South
America to Russia via Africa and the South Seas, "Writing Travel
and Empire" will engage all those with an interest in cultural
geography, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, biography
and travel writing.
The British Empire drew on the talents of many remarkable figures,
whose lives reveal a wonderfully rich involvement with the crucial
issues of the period. In many cases they left a legacy of travel
writing, novels, biography and ethnography which made important
contributions to our knowledge of other cultures."Writing, Travel
and Empire" explores the lives and writings of eight such figures,
including Sir George Grey, Gertrude Bell, Sir Hugh Clifford, and
Roger Casement. All travelled the Empire - from Grey, the renowned
colonial governor who undertook dangerous journeys to the interior
of Australia, to Tom Harrisson, the emaciated polymath, war hero
and Arctic explorer, whose time in the New Hebrides embraced both
cannibalistic rituals and a meeting with film legend Douglas
Fairbanks Sr, who sought Harrisson out for a Hollywood feature
about savage life.All saw themselves as writers, despite their very
different approaches and interests, and each was writing against a
backdrop of the impending disappearance of indigenous cultures
around the world. Writing from the margins of what was shortly to
become the more formalised discipline of anthropology, their work
yields interesting insights into both the issues of empire and the
ways in which academic disciplines define the boundaries of their
subject. Embracing themes such as gender and travel, racial
science, the globalisation of 'native management' and the internal
colonies, and with a geographical coverage that extends from South
America to Russia via Africa and the South Seas, "Writing Travel
and Empire" will engage all those with an interest in cultural
geography, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, biography
and travel writing.
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