The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration (Ucl Institute of Archaeology Publications) |  | Author: Iain Davidson
Creator: Russell Mcdougall
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $79.00
Sales Rank: 1494317
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
ISBN: 1598742280
Dewey Decimal Number: 301.0922
EAN: 9781598742282
ASIN: 1598742280
Publication Date: April 30, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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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 Aboriginesconsidered to be among the first systematic ethnographies anywhereand 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 Roths 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.
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