Ethnographers Before Malinowski

Frederico Delgado Rosa is lecturer at NOVA University, Lisbon (Portugal) and a researcher in the history of anthropology at CRIA Centre for Research in Anthropology (Lisbon) and HERITAGES (Paris). He is the author, among other works, of Exploradores portugueses e reis africanos [Portuguese Explorers and African Kings], with Filipe Verde (A Esfera dos Livros, 2013). He is codirector, with Christine Laurière, of BEROSE International Encyclopedia of the Histories of Anthropology.

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Acknowledgments



Foreword: Unearthing the Hidden Treasures of Early Ethnography

Thomas Hylland Eriksen



Introduction: . Other Argonauts: Chapters in the History of Pre-Malinowskian Ethnography

Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen



Part I: In Search of the Native’s Point of View



Chapter 1. “Adapt Fully to Their Customs”: Franz Boas as an Ethnographer among the Inuit of Baffinland (1883–84) and his Monograph The Central Eskimo (1888)

Herbert S. Lewis



Chapter 2. “A Sympathetic Chronicler of a Sympathetic People”: Katie Langloh Parker and The Euahlayi Tribe (1905)

Barbara Chambers Dawson



Chapter 3. Edward Westermarck, a Master Ethnographer, and his Monograph Ritual and Belief in Morocco (1926)

David Shankland



Part II: The Indigenous Ethnographer’s Magic



Chapter 4. Frontier Ethnography and Colonial Theology: Mpengula Mbande and Marginal Informants in Henry Callaway’s The Religious System of the Amazulu (1868–70)    

David Chidester



Chapter 5. At the Feet of the Lord of the Dragons: Tutakangahau, Elsdon Best, and Waikaremoana: The Sea of the Rippling Waters (1897)

Jeffrey Paparoa Holman



Chapter 6. Partnership with a Native American Family: Alice C. Fletcher, Francis La Flesche, and The Omaha Tribe (1911)

Joanna Cohan Scherer



Part III: Colonial Ethnography From Invasion to Empathy



Chapter 7. Stepping into a Pit of Snakes: John Gregory Bourke and The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona (1884)

Ronald L. Grimes



Chapter 8. Totemic Relics and Ancestral Fetishes: Henri Trilles’s Chez les Fang, or Fifteen Years in the French Congo (1912)

André Mary



Chapter 9. “The Stream Crosses the Path”: Robert Sutherland Rattray and Ashanti (1923)

Montgomery McFate



Part IV: Expeditionary Ethnography as Intensive Fieldwork



Chapter 10. From Savages to Friends: Henrique de Carvalho and his Etnografia e História Tradicional dos Povos da Lunda (1890)

Frederico Delgado Rosa



Chapter 11. “Do in the Tundra as the Tundra-Dwellers Do”: Maria Czaplicka, her Yenisei Expedition (1914–15), and My Siberian Year (1916)

Grażyna Kubica



Chapter 12. Developing Fieldwork in the South American Lowlands: Debates and Practices in the Work of German Ethnographers (1884–1928)

Michael Kraus



Conclusion: Founders of Anthropology and Their Predecessors

Han F. Vermeulen and Frederico Delgado Rosa



Appendix: Selected Bibliography of Ethnographic Accounts, c.1870–1922

Han F. Vermeulen and Frederico Delgado Rosa



Index