{"product_id":"the-shaping-of-american-ethnography-the-wilkes-exploring-expedition-18381842-9780803225916","title":"The Shaping of American Ethnography  The Wilkes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”—\u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A valuable contribution to the growing literature on the history of anthropology.”—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Anthropological Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  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","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405246013783,"sku":"9780803225916","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803225916.jpg?v=1730489264","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-shaping-of-american-ethnography-the-wilkes-exploring-expedition-18381842-9780803225916","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}