Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration
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anthropology of colonial administration
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Australian Museum
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Brisbane Grammar School
British Guiana
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Colonial Administration
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Ethnological Studies
Female Genital Cutting
Great Benin
Guiana Indians
imperial scientific networks
Indigenous Fijian
indigenous policy studies
linguistic fieldwork methods
Lord Stanmore
medical
museum
museum collection history
Niger Coast Protectorate
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North West Central Queensland
North West Central Queensland Aborigines
North West Queensland
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Princess Charlotte Bay
Queensland Museum
Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna
Roth Family
Roth's Account
Roth's Work
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Roth’s Account
Roth’s Work
Royal Anthropological Institute
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Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781598742282
- Weight: 589g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2008
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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No family better represents the overlapping roles of administrator and scientist in the British empire than the Roths. Descended from a Hungarian emigrant to Australia, two generations of Roths served the empire on four continents and, at the same time, produced ethnographic, archaeological, and linguistic studies that form the basis for much modern research. This volume assesses the often-conflicting roles and contributions of the Roths as government servants and anthropologists. Most of the volume deals with Walter E. Roth, who developed foundational studies of both the Australian Aborigines—considered to be among the first systematic ethnographies anywhere—and South American tribes while serving as Chief Protector of Aborigines in Queensland and later medical officer, magistrate, museum curator and indigenous relations officer in British Guyana. Henry Ling Roth’s contributions to the anthropology of Tasmania, Benin, Sarawak, and New Zealand are also enumerated, as are the publications and administrative activities of the succeeding generation of Roths. This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology.
Russell McDougall, Iain Davidson
