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Book SynopsisIn August of 1838 the United States Exploring Expedition set sail from Norfolk Navy Yard with six ships and more than seven hundred crewmen, including technicians and scientists. This title argues that the nineteenth-century explorers shared the attributes that characterize the discipline of anthropology in any age.
Trade Review“This is a thorough and well-written account of an exploring expedition under the auspices of the US Navy . . . The many reproductions of drawings produced on the expedition and included in the text are as telling as Joyce's prose.”—
Choice“Barry Alan Joyce’s study focuses for the first time on the ethnographic observations of the scientists and officers who spent so many months at sea and in contact with strikingly divers peoples from Fiji to Vancouver . . . Joyce has done much to show us the torturous process of early, pre-professional anthropological observation whereby those opinions were formed.”—
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences“A valuable contribution to the growing literature on the history of anthropology.”—
Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsContents: List of Illustrations Series Editors' Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1Motivations and Preparation Chapter 2Around the Horn Chapter 3Across the Pacific Chapter 4The World of the Feejee Chapter 5Return to America Chapter 6Ethnography and the Legacy of the Expedition Notes Bibliography Index
