Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. Foreword. Unearthing the Hidden Treasures of Early Ethnography xiv
6. Introduction Other Argonauts Chapters in the History of Pre-Malinowskian Ethnography 1
7. Part I In Search of the Native’s Point of View
8. 1 “Adapt Fully to Their Customs” Franz Boas as an Ethnographer among the Inuit of Baffinland (1883–84) and His Monograph The Central Eskimo (1888) 45
9. 2 “A Sympathetic Chronicler of a Sympathetic People” Katie Langloh Parker and The Euahlayi Tribe (1905) 83
10. 3 Edward Westermarck, a Master Ethnographer, and His Monograph Ritual and Belief in Morocco (1926) 117
11. Part II The Indigenous Ethnographer’s Magic
12. 4 Frontier Ethnography and Colonial Theology Mpengula Mbande and Marginal Informants in Henry Callaway’s The Religious System of the Amazulu (1868–70) 151
13. 5 At the Feet of the Lord of the Dragons Tutakangahau, Elsdon Best, and Waikare-moana: The Sea of the Rippling Waters (1897) 185
14. 6 Partnership with a Native American Family Alice C. Fletcher, Francis La Flesche, and The Omaha Tribe (1911) 215
15. Part III Colonial Ethnography from Invasion to Empathy
16. 7 Stepping into a Pit of Snakes John Gregory Bourke and The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona (1884) 249
17. 8 Totemic Relics and Ancestral Fetishes Henri Trilles’s Chez les Fang , or Fifteen Years in the French Congo (1912) 274
18. 9 “The Stream Crosses the Path” Robert Sutherland Rattray and Ashanti (1923) 307
19. Part IV Expeditionary Ethnography as Intensive Fieldwork
20. 10 From Savages to Friends Henrique de Carvalho and His Etnografia e História Tradicional dos Povos da Lunda (1890) 333
21. 11 “Do in the Tundra as the Tundra-Dwellers Do” Maria Czaplicka, Her Yenisei Expedition (1914–15), and My Siberian Year (1916) 376
22. 12 Developing Fieldwork in the South American Lowlands Debates and Practices in the Work of German Ethnographers (1884–1928) 411
23. Conclusion Founders of Anthropology and Their Predecessors 449
24. Appendix Selected Bibliography of Ethnographic Accounts, ca. 1870–1922 474
25. Index 502