The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration

Russell McDougall, Iain Davidson

Introduction; 1: The Background and Scope of the Roth Family; 1: Making Otherness the Norm; 2: The Family Background and Achievements of Walter Edmund Roth; 2: Henry Ling Roth; 3: Henry Ling Roth: The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo; 4: The Making of Great Benin: Felix Norman Roth and Henry Ling Roth 1; 5: The Primitive Body and Colonial Administration: Henry Ling Roth's Approach to Body Modification; 3: Walter E Roth and the Scientific Collection of Data about Australian Indigenous People; 6: From Oxford to the Bush: WE Roth, WB Spencer and Australian Anthropology; 7: Ethnological Studies and Archaeology of North West Central Queensland; 8: WE Roth and the Study of Aboriginal Languages in Queensland; 4: Walter E Roth and Controversy in Australia; 9: WE Roth on Asians in Australia; 10: The Legacy of a ‘Lazy Character': Walter Roth's Contribution to the Ethnography Collections of the Queensland Museum; 11: The Life and Times of Walter Edmund Roth in North Queensland: The First Protector, the Australian Museum and Scandal; 12: Naked Shame: Nation, Science and Indigenous Knowledge in Walter Roth's Interventions into Frontier Sexualities; 13: Walter Edmund Roth: Royal Commissioner of Western Australia, 1904; 14: Walter Roth and Ethno-Pornography; 5: Walter E Roth in Guyana; 15: An Indigenous Compendium: Walter E Roth and the Ethnology of British Guiana; 16: ‘Protector of Indians': Assessing Walter Roth's Legacy in Policy Towards Amerindians in Guyana; 6: The Roth Legacy; 17: Vincent Roth: The Man, His Life and His Work; 18: George Kingsley Roth and the Fijian Way of Life