Recording Kastom

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. 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.

"The book itself is exciting to read and easily exceeds its stated goals. Having Haddon’s personal journey sitting alongside the ‘scientific’ aspects of his research provides a contextualised and balanced view of his Torres Strait experiences. The sizeable collection of images – Haddon’s black and white photographs and colour sketches, combined with high-quality colour photographs of his collected objects, now housed at Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – is an essential element to the volume’s appeal."

• Acknowledgements Foreword Preface Notes on the text Introduction The Journals of Alfred Cort Haddon Epilogue Works cited Index