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- Title
The Dawn of the "Chaotic Account": Horatio Hale's Australia Notebook and the Development of Anthropologists' Field Notes.
- Authors
Belton, Tom
- Abstract
The article presents an archival analysis of notebooks and their relationships to other portions of personal archives. An overview of anthropologists' own literature is provided, along with a case study of a mid-nineteenth-century notebook owned by American explorer and ethnographer Horatio Hale. The field notes of anthropologists are based mainly on observation and intended for the self. According to Polish British anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, field notes is a chaotic account in which everything is written down as it is observed or told. The death field notes of Hale had become the core of the anthropological participant observer's record-keeping toolkit.
- Subjects
NOTEBOOKS; PERSONAL archives; ANTHROPOLOGISTS; HALE, Horatio, 1817-1896; ANTHROPOLOGY; RECORDS management; MALINOWSKI, Bronislaw, 1884-1942
- Publication
Libraries & the Cultural Record, 2009, Vol 44, Issue 1, p138
- ISSN
1932-4855
- Publication type
Article