The Roth family, anthropology, and colonial administration

Abstract

Making otherness the norm / Judit Brody -- The family background and achievements of Walter Edmund Roth / Barrie Reynolds -- Henry Ling Roth : the natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo / Robert Hampson -- The making of Great Benin : Felix Norman Roth and Henry Ling Roth / Russell McDougall -- The primitive body and colonial administration : Henry Ling Roth's approach to body modification / Alice Gorman -- From Oxford to the bush : W.E. Roth, W.B. Spencer and Australian anthropology / John Mulvaney -- Ethnological studies and archaeology of north west central Queensland / Iain Davidson -- W.E. Roth and the study of Aboriginal languages in Queensland / Gavan Breen -- W.E. Roth on Asians in Sustralia / Regina Ganter -- The legacy of a 'lazy character' : Walter Roth's contribution to the ethnography collections of the Queensland Museum / Richard Robins -- The life and times of Walter Edmund Roth in north Queensland : the first protector, the Australian museum and scandal / Kate Khan -- Naked shame : nation, science and indigenous knowledge in Walter Roth's interventions into frontier sexualities / Ann McGrath -- Walter Edmund Roth : Royal commissioner of Western Australia, 1904 / Geoffrey Gray -- Walter Roth and ethno-pornography / Helen Pringle -- An indigenous compendium : Walter E. Roth and the ethnology of British Guiana / Neil L. Whitehead -- 'Protector of Indians' : assessing Walter Roth's legacy in policy towards Amerindians in Guyana / Janette Bulkan and Arif Bulkan -- Vincent Roth : the man, his life and his work / Michael Bennett -- George Kingsley Roth and the Fijian way of life / Julian Croft