Elsdon Best

Frederico Delgado Rosa author Jeffrey Paparoa Holman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Publishing:1st Jul '25

£19.95

This title is due to be published on 1st July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Elsdon Best cover

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: 9781805399001

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

152 pages