Cambridge and the Torres Strait: Centenary Essays on the
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Herle, Anita / Rouse, Sandra / Anita, Herle, PUBLISHER: Cambridge Univerong>sitong>y Press, Torres Strait has an established place in the history of anthropology because of its association with the Cambridge Univerong>sitong>y ong>Expeditionong> of organised by A. C. Haddon. This early British anthropological ong>expeditionong> is regarded as a seminal event in the formation of academic anthropology in Britain. Its goal was to make an unprecedentedly comprehensive anthropological study embracing ethnology, physical anthropology, psychology, linguistics, sociology and ethnomusicology. The nine interdisciplinary essays in this centenary volume offer ways of looking at and ong>sitong>uation the ong>Expeditionong>'s work in historical and intellectual debates. Central themes covered are the relationship between the ong>expeditionong> members and the Torres Strait Islanders: the innovations associated with the ong>Expeditionong> and the ong>Expeditionong>'s influence on the development of anthropology and psychology. One hundred years on, the results of the ong>Expeditionong> have a contemporary relevance for anthropology and for the Torres Strait Islanders.