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German Ethnography in Australia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs in Anthropology SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (522 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760461324
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: German Ethnography in AustraliaDDC classification:
  • 305.800994
LOC classification:
  • DU120 .G476 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Abbreviations -- Figures and tables -- Maps -- Plates -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Orthography -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The German-language tradition of ethnography in Australia -- 2. German-language anthropology traditions around 1900: Their methodological relevance for ethnographers in Australia and beyond -- Part I: First encounters -- 3. Clamor Schürmann's contribution to the ethnographic record for Eyre Peninsula, South Australia -- 4. Pulcaracuranie: Losing and finding a cosmic centre with the help of J. G. Reuther and others -- 5. Looking at some details of Reuther's work -- 6. German Moravian missionaries on western Cape York Peninsula and their perception of the local Aboriginal people and languages -- Part II: Impact of the Aranda -- 7. Early ethnographic work at the Hermannsburg Mission in Central Australia, 1877-1910 -- 8. Sigmund Freud, Géza Róheim and the Strehlows: Oedipal tales from Central Australian anthropology -- 9. Of kinships and othert hings: T. G. H. Strehlow in Central Australia -- 10. 'Only the best is good enough for eternity': Revisiting the ethnography of T. G. H. Strehlow -- Part III: Widening the interest -- 11. The Australianist work of Erhard Eylmann in comparative perspective -- 12. Herbert Basedow (1881-1933): Surgeon, geologist, naturalist and anthropologist -- 13. Father Worms's contribution to Australian Aboriginal anthropology -- 14. Historicising culture: Father Ernst Worms and the German anthropological traditions -- Part IV: Academic anthropology -- 15. Doing research in the Kimberley and carrying ideological baggage: A personal journey -- 16. Tracks and shadows: Some social effects of the 1938 Frobenius Expedition to the north‑west Kimberley -- 17. Carl Georg von Brandenstein's legacy: The past in the present.
18. The end of an era: Ronald Berndt and the German ethnographic tradition -- Index.
Summary: The advent of native title claims, which require drawing on the earliest ethnography for any area, together with an increase in research on rock art of the Kimberley region, has stimulated interest in this German ethnography, as have some recent book translations.
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Intro -- Abbreviations -- Figures and tables -- Maps -- Plates -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Orthography -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The German-language tradition of ethnography in Australia -- 2. German-language anthropology traditions around 1900: Their methodological relevance for ethnographers in Australia and beyond -- Part I: First encounters -- 3. Clamor Schürmann's contribution to the ethnographic record for Eyre Peninsula, South Australia -- 4. Pulcaracuranie: Losing and finding a cosmic centre with the help of J. G. Reuther and others -- 5. Looking at some details of Reuther's work -- 6. German Moravian missionaries on western Cape York Peninsula and their perception of the local Aboriginal people and languages -- Part II: Impact of the Aranda -- 7. Early ethnographic work at the Hermannsburg Mission in Central Australia, 1877-1910 -- 8. Sigmund Freud, Géza Róheim and the Strehlows: Oedipal tales from Central Australian anthropology -- 9. Of kinships and othert hings: T. G. H. Strehlow in Central Australia -- 10. 'Only the best is good enough for eternity': Revisiting the ethnography of T. G. H. Strehlow -- Part III: Widening the interest -- 11. The Australianist work of Erhard Eylmann in comparative perspective -- 12. Herbert Basedow (1881-1933): Surgeon, geologist, naturalist and anthropologist -- 13. Father Worms's contribution to Australian Aboriginal anthropology -- 14. Historicising culture: Father Ernst Worms and the German anthropological traditions -- Part IV: Academic anthropology -- 15. Doing research in the Kimberley and carrying ideological baggage: A personal journey -- 16. Tracks and shadows: Some social effects of the 1938 Frobenius Expedition to the north‑west Kimberley -- 17. Carl Georg von Brandenstein's legacy: The past in the present.

18. The end of an era: Ronald Berndt and the German ethnographic tradition -- Index.

The advent of native title claims, which require drawing on the earliest ethnography for any area, together with an increase in research on rock art of the Kimberley region, has stimulated interest in this German ethnography, as have some recent book translations.

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