Elsdon Best
Frederico Delgado Rosa author Jeffrey Paparoa Holman author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Berghahn Books
Publishing:1st Jul '25
£92.00
This title is due to be published on 1st July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

New Zealander ethnographer, Elsdon Best is a key figure in the history of anthropology due to his involuntary triggering of a fundamental and long-lasting anthropological debate on the Māori concept of hau. This volume is dedicated to this important scholar, who at the same time was shadowed by metropolitan anthropology and became an excluded ancestor, along with his Māori interlocutors and ethnographic collaborators. By recentering his place as one of anthropology’s ancestors, the volume contributes to a new perception of the discipline’s past.
ISBN: 9781805398882
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
152 pages