Anthropology's global histories; the ethnographic frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935.

9780824831844

Anthropology's global histories; the ethnographic frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935.

Buschmann, Rainer F.

U. of Hawai'i Press

2009

234 pages

$55.00

Hardcover

Perspectives on the global past

GN671

In light of the reconciliations between the fields of history and anthropology in recent decades, Buschmann (history, California State U., Channel Islands) writes on the colony of German New Guinea (1884- 1914) in order to recover anthropology's global view through the idea of the ethnographic frontier. The author discusses topics such as the change in collecting aims and methods that shifted ethnographic studies into a broader consideration of culture, how ethnographic collecting became political and connected to nationalism, and the German experience in German New Guinea in a wider context of Euro- American anthropology.

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