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Before the field: colonial anthropology reassessed
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posted on 2016-11-01, 00:00 authored by Helen GardnerHelen Gardner, Robert KennyRobert KennyThe introduction to this special issue argues for a reappraisal of colonial anthropology in the broader historiography of British anthropology. It challenges the continuation of the centre–periphery model that has positioned colonial ethnographers and their Indigenous authorities as awkward, peripheral figures in the history of the discipline, and posits that, while the evolutionist tomes of the 19th century are now of purely historical value, the colonial texts, permeated as they are with Indigenous presence, remain relevant for Aboriginal people and current anthropology. In particular the introduction suggests that the impetus for British scholars to set out for ‘the field’, subsequently defined as the proper site of anthropological endeavour, came from the challenges to evolutionism by colonial ethnographers and Indigenous authorities working in situ and in close contact.
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OceaniaVolume
86Issue
3Season
Special issue: before the field: colonial ethnography's challenge to British anthropologyPagination
218 - 224Publisher
Wiley-BlackwellLocation
London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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0029-8077eISSN
1834-4461Indigenous content
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