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Title: |
Recording Kastom |
| Sub-title: |
Alfred Haddon's Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898 |
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| Edited by: |
Anita Herle, Jude Philp |
| ISBN10-13: |
1743326483 : 9781743326480 |
| Illustrations: |
, |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
240x170mm |
| Pages: |
378 |
| Weight: |
.400 Kg. |
| Published: |
Sydney University Press - December 2020 |
| List Price: |
40.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Subjects: |
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
| Winner of the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize 2021â This book will be equally as valuable for historians of anthropology and colonialism; scholars working in Melanesia; and the Islander descendants of Haddon's interlocutors' - Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteRecording Kastom brings readers into the heart of colonial Torres Strait and New Guinea through the personal journals of Cambridge zoologist and anthropologist Alfred Haddon, who visited the region in 1888 and 1898.Haddon's published reports of these trips were hugely influential on the nascent discipline of anthropology, but his private journals and sketches have never been published in full. The journals record in vivid detail Haddon's observations and relationships. They highlight his preoccupation with documentation, and the central role played by the Islanders who worked with him to record kastom. This collaboration resulted in an enormous body of materials that remain of vital interest to Torres Strait Islanders and the communities where he worked. Haddon's Journals provide unique and intimate insights into the colonial history of the region will be an important resource for scholars in history, anthropology, linguistics and musicology.This comprehensively annotated edition assembles a rich array of photographs, drawings, artefacts, film and sound recordings. An introductory essay provides historical and cultural context. The preface and epilogue provide Islander perspectives on the historical context of Haddonâ s work and its significance for the future. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Acknowledgements Foreword Preface Notes on the text Introduction The Journals of Alfred Cort Haddon Epilogue Works cited Index |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Australian History
2021
Australia
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Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize
2021
Australia
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Mander Jones Awards (Australian Society of Archivists)
2020
Australia
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Australian Book Design Awards: Best Designed Non-Fiction Book
2021
Australia
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"This shift [materials re-conceived not as 'data' but as 'cultural heritage'] has occurred in no small part due to the advocacy of source communities who continue to speak assertively about the value of such materials to their contemporary lives. Anita Herle and Jude Philp have taken up this challenge and via their engagements with the relevant communities they have made this important material widely accessible for the first time ... Recording Kastom will therefore become a key text for students and scholars of Australian and Pacific history, Indigenous studies, anthropology and museology." -- Jason Gibson -- Anthropological Forum
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[The introduction] provides a highly informative backdrop to the Haddon journals, detailing Haddon and his family, the colonial context of Haddon's research in Torres Strait, and a critical examination of Haddon and his team's innovative approach to fieldwork ... Recording Kastom leaves us with a very strong sense that the most important legacy of Haddon and the 'Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits' resides with Torres Strait Islander families of today and into the future. -- Ian McNiven -- Australian Archaeology
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"Recording Kastom is an extraordinary publication that serves well the remarkable collection of arrows, masks, adornments, figures and rain charms now held at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in the University of Cambridge. The information in Haddon's journals gives the reader a deeper sense of context for these artefacts and fascinating insights into the region of the Pacific during a time of great change just before the dawn of the 20th century." -- Crispin Howarth -- Journal of the Oceanic Art Society
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