The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908

Contents\nFigures and Tables\nPreface\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: The Ethnographic Experiment in Island Melanesia\n1 Acknowledging Ancestors: The Vexations of Representation\n2 Across the New Georgia Group A.M. Hocart’s Fieldwork as Inter-island Practice\n3 The Genealogical Method: Vella Lavella Reconsidered\n4 Rivers and the Study of Kinship on Ambrym: Mother Right and Father Right Revisited\n5 A House upon Pacific Sand: W.H.R. Rivers and His 1908 Ethnographic Survey Work\n6 Colonialism as Shell Shock: W.H.R. Rivers’s Explanations for Depopulation in Melanesia\n7 A Vanishing People or a Vanishing Discourse? W.H.R. Rivers’s ‘Psychological Factor’ and Depopulation in the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides\n8 Objects and Photographs from the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition\nAppendix 1 Unpublished Reports by W.H.R. Rivers to the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust Fund\nAppendix 2 Materials in Archives from the 1908 Percy Sladen Trust Expedition\nAppendix 3 Planning the Expedition: Letters Written Before the Fieldwork Began\nNotes on Contributors\nIndex