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Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island (review)

Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter... asian perspectives 44(2) fall 2005 get so far as the anthropological establishment in England and Australia were concerned. Students of anthropology will also find Williams' critique of functionalism remarkably refreshing. His critique is implicit in most of his published work, but was explicit in at least one essay, ``Creed of the Government Anthropologist,'' in which he expressed the view that culture ``always remains to some extent a hotch potch and sorry tangle.'' He accepted that di¤erent cultural elements were integrated, but felt the functionalists had overemphasized the integration of culture, largely ignoring ``to what extent cultures do not work or to what extent they work badly.'' It has been nearly a quarter-century since the last major reassessment of Williams' work appeared--in Erik Schwimmer's introduction to The Vailala Madness and Other Essays. This book is a most welcome and sensitive reevaluation of a much overlooked anthropologist. The volume emerged as a response to Julia Clark's photographic exhibition, Eye to Eye: Observations by F. E. Williams, Anthropologists in Papua 1922­43, developed by the National Archives of Australia in 1999. This exhibition continues to travel around various centers in Papua New Guinea, a testimony to the importance that both the exhibition http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Perspectives University of Hawai'I Press

Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island (review)

Asian Perspectives , Volume 44 (2) – Nov 21, 2005

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asian perspectives 44(2) fall 2005 get so far as the anthropological establishment in England and Australia were concerned. Students of anthropology will also find Williams' critique of functionalism remarkably refreshing. His critique is implicit in most of his published work, but was explicit in at least one essay, ``Creed of the Government Anthropologist,'' in which he expressed the view that culture ``always remains to some extent a hotch potch and sorry tangle.'' He accepted that di¤erent cultural elements were integrated, but felt the functionalists had overemphasized the integration of culture, largely ignoring ``to what extent cultures do not work or to what extent they work badly.'' It has been nearly a quarter-century since the last major reassessment of Williams' work appeared--in Erik Schwimmer's introduction to The Vailala Madness and Other Essays. This book is a most welcome and sensitive reevaluation of a much overlooked anthropologist. The volume emerged as a response to Julia Clark's photographic exhibition, Eye to Eye: Observations by F. E. Williams, Anthropologists in Papua 1922­43, developed by the National Archives of Australia in 1999. This exhibition continues to travel around various centers in Papua New Guinea, a testimony to the importance that both the exhibition

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Published: Nov 21, 2005

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