Anthropological texts and Indigenous standpoints

Abstract

1998 marks the centenary of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait. This was an expedition of ambitious proportion and logistics, an expedition at the cutting edge of new scientific disciplines and knowledge emerging during the last century. The scholars (AC Haddon, W H R Rivers, CS Myers, W McDougall, S H Ray, A Wilkin, CS Seligmann) involved in this expedition were experts in a number of fields: zoology, ethnology, music, experimental psychology, and linguistics. Their work challenged and extended the intellectual boundaries of what was known and understood about 'primitive' peoples. The six-volume reports (hereafter Haddon Reports) produced from this expedition stand as one of the most comprehensive early attempts to document the lives and characteristics of a society of people before the onslaught of colonial expansion changed them forever and before Indigenous skills and knowledges were lost to the world.

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