The Roth Family
Anthropology and Colonial Administration
Published in August 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-84472-066-8 (ISBN)
Description
The relationship between anthropology and colonial administration is the subject of contentious discussion, and the Roth family figure largely in the history of both. The book examines the relation between anthropology and colonial administration through consideration of the contributors of the remarkable Roth family. The book emphasises the contribution of Walter E. Roth in particular, not only because of his empirical contributions but also because of the manner in which his work in Australia was cut short by controversy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (UK-B)
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84472-066-8 (9781844720668)
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Persons
Russell McDougall has published widely on West African, West Indian and Australian literatures and histories. He is Associate Professor in English at the University of New England. Iain Davidson has studied the archaeology of hunter-gatherers in Europe and Australia since the early 1970s. He has studied stone tools, animal bones and rock art, and published extensively on the archaeology of language origins, often with psychologist William Noble. He has undertaken archaeological work in North West Central Queensland since 1986.
Content
Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART 1: THE BACKGROUND AND SCOPE OF THE ROTH FAMILY; 1 Making Otherness the Norm; J.Brody; 2 The Family Background and Achievements of Walter Edmund Roth; B.Reynolds; PART 2: HENRY LING ROTH; 3 Henry Ling Roth: The Natives of Scotland and British North Borneo; R.Hampson; 4 The Making of Great Benin: Felix and Henry Ling Roth; R.McDougall; 5 The Primitive Body and Colonial Administration: Henry Ling Roth's Approach to Body Modification; A.Gorman; PART 2: WALTER E ROTH AND THE SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION OF DATA ABOUT AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; 6 From Oxford to the Bush: W.E. Roth, W.B. Spencer and Australian Anthropology; J.Mulvaney; 7 Ethnological Studies and Archaeology of North West Central Queensland; I.Davidson; 8 Text as Archaeological Data: Walter E Roth and Queensland Archaeology; B.Barker; 9 W.E. Roth and the Study of Aboriginal Languages in Queensland; G.Breen; PART 3: WALTER E ROTH AND CONTROVERSY IN AUSTRALIA; 10 W.E. Roth on Asians in Australia; R.Ganter; 11 The Legacy of a 'Lazy Character': The Contribution of Walter Roth to the Ethnography Collections of the Queensland Museum; R.Robins; 12 Walter Edmund Roth, his Life and Times in North Queensland: The First Protector, the Australian Museum and Scandal; K.Khan; 13 Naked Shame: Nation, Science and Indigenous Knowledge in Walter Roth's Interventions into Frontier Sexualities; A.McGrath; 14 Walter Edmund Roth, Royal Commissioner, Western Australia, 1904; G.Gray; 15 Walter Roth and Ethno-Pornography; H.Pringle; PART 4: WALTER E ROTH IN GUYANA; 16 An Indigenous Compendium: Walter E Roth and the Ethnology of British Guiana; N.Whitehead; 17 'Protector of Indians': Assessing Walter Roth's Legacy in Policy towards Amerindians in Guyana; J.Bulkan A.Bulkan; PART 5: THE ROTH LEGACY; 18 Vincent Roth: The Man, his Life and Work; M.Bennett 19 George Kingsley Roth and the Fijian Way of Life; J.Croft; Bibliography Index;