Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon's Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898

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Anita Herle Jude Philp

Recording Kastom

Alfred Haddon's Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898

Anita Herle, Jude Philp, Anita Herle

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English

Sydney University Press
01 December 2020

History; Australasian & Pacific history; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Indigenous Music of Australia

Recording Kastom brings readers into the heart of colonial Torres Strait and New Guinea through the journals of zoologist and anthropologist Alfred Haddon, who visited the islands in 1888 and 1898.

Haddon's published reports of these trips were hugely influential on the fledgling discipline of anthropology, but his private diaries and sketches have never been published in full. The diaries record in vivid detail Haddon's observations and relationships, and his close collaboration with Islander communities to record a huge body of cultural knowledge. This knowledge remains of vital importance to Islander communities, and to scholars in a range of disciplines.

This edition assembles a rich array of photographs and drawings. An introductory essay provides historical and cultural context, and a preface by community members explains the significance of the journals to Islander communities today.

Edited by: Anita Herle, Jude Philp, Anita Herle
Imprint: Sydney University Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781743326480
ISBN 10: 1743326483
Series: Indigenous Music of Australia
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 01 December 2020
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jude Philp is Senior Curator of the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include museum anthropology, 19th century Pacific history, historic taxidermy, the commerce of natural history, and Pacific Islander material culture. Anita Herle is Senior Curator (World Anthropology) at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include museum anthropology, the early history of British anthropology, art and aesthetics, with a particular interest in the Torres Strait, Vanuatu, Fiji and Canada.

Reviews for Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon's Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898

This shift [materials re-conceived not as 'data' but as 'cultural heritage'] has occurred in no small part due to the advocacy of source communities who continue to speak assertively about the value of such materials to their contemporary lives. Anita Herle and Jude Philp have taken up this challenge and via their engagements with the relevant communities they have made this important material widely accessible for the first time ... Recording Kastom will therefore become a key text for students and scholars of Australian and Pacific history, Indigenous studies, anthropology and museology. -- Jason Gibson * Anthropological Forum *

Nominated for Australian Book Design Awards: Best Designed Non-Fiction Book 2020 (Australia)
Nominated for Australian Society of Archivists '2020 Mander Jones Awards' 2020 (Australia)
Nominated for Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize 2021 (Australia)
Nominated for Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Australian History 2021 (Australia)
Winner of Australian Book Design Awards: Best Designed Non-Fiction Book 2020 (Australia)
Winner of Australian Society of Archivists '2020 Mander Jones Awards' 2020 (Australia)