An anthropologist in Papua : the photography of F.E. Williams, 1922-39
Michael W. Young (Author), Julia Clark (Author), F. E. Williams (Photographer)
"This book is a pictorial celebration of the work of an ethnographer. F.E. Williams was one of the most talented and productive anthropologists of his generation. Australian-born and Oxford-trained, he spent twenty years - the entirety of his working career - as Government Anthropologist in the Australian Territory of Papua, then ruled by the 'benignly paternalistic' proconsul Sir Hubert Murray." "One of the aims of An Anthropologist in Papua is to document, through Williams' photographs and, wherever possible, through his words, the sheer variety of his ethnographic discoveries and fieldwork experiences. Some 235 images have been selected, about 200 of which appear in print for the first time." "An introductory essay provides the biographical, historical and anthropological contexts of Williams' ethnographic and photographic achievement. Such contexts are essential for a proper appreciation of his work: notably, the colonial milieu of Papua in the 1920s and 1930s; Williams' important relationship with Lieutenant Governor Murray (with whom he did not always see eye to eye); and his relationships with academic mentors such as Bronislaw Malinowski and R.R. Marett (who memorably said of Williams that he was 'a fine soldier who would make a grand explorer')."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2001
University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2001