Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos:emergent ethnographic subjects c.1900

In this lecture the focus is on A.R. Radcliffe-Brown’s ethnographic work, notably his fieldwork in the Andaman Islands in 1906–8. About the same time, the Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen studied the Polar Eskimos in North-West Greenland. While sharing a general quest for ethnographic description...

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Main Author: Hastrup, Kirsten
Format: Book Part
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Published: British Academy 2014
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eskimo*
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197265666.003.0002
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spelling crbritishacademy:10.5871/bacad/9780197265666.003.0002 2023-12-31T10:06:34+01:00 Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos:emergent ethnographic subjects c.1900 Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology read 24 October 2012 by Hastrup, Kirsten 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197265666.003.0002 unknown British Academy British Academy Lectures 2012-13 book-chapter 2014 crbritishacademy https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197265666.003.0002 2023-12-06T15:34:32Z In this lecture the focus is on A.R. Radcliffe-Brown’s ethnographic work, notably his fieldwork in the Andaman Islands in 1906–8. About the same time, the Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen studied the Polar Eskimos in North-West Greenland. While sharing a general quest for ethnographic description of little-known groups, they styled their fieldwork in different ways, saw colonialism in different terms, adhered to different knowledge traditions, and not least, worked in different natural environments. This resulted in very distinct portraits of ‘the natives’, which were to cast long shadows into the present, within which the history of first encounters is firmly embedded. Book Part eskimo* Greenland The British Academy (via Crossref)
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description In this lecture the focus is on A.R. Radcliffe-Brown’s ethnographic work, notably his fieldwork in the Andaman Islands in 1906–8. About the same time, the Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen studied the Polar Eskimos in North-West Greenland. While sharing a general quest for ethnographic description of little-known groups, they styled their fieldwork in different ways, saw colonialism in different terms, adhered to different knowledge traditions, and not least, worked in different natural environments. This resulted in very distinct portraits of ‘the natives’, which were to cast long shadows into the present, within which the history of first encounters is firmly embedded.
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title Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos:emergent ethnographic subjects c.1900
title_short Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos:emergent ethnographic subjects c.1900
title_full Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos:emergent ethnographic subjects c.1900
title_fullStr Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos:emergent ethnographic subjects c.1900
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