TY - JOUR
T1 - Island networks and missionary methods: Locating charles e. fox and frederick g. bowie in the history of pacific archaeology
AU - Haddow, Eve
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - ‘Missionary’ and ‘archaeology’ may appear incongruous partners within contemporary
archaeological practice, but archival, museum and oral sources reveal historical
connections. This paper explores two missionaries, active in the western Pacific from
1896 to 1973. Reverends Charles Elliot Fox (Melanesian Mission, Solomon Islands)
and Frederick Gatherer Bowie (Free Church of Scotland Mission, Vanuatu) both
conducted studies related to the prehistory and migration of Pacific people. Both
produced material assemblages, as well as textual and visual documents, and formed
ideas influenced by their own networks and self identities. The paper examines their
data collection methods and relationships with others, considering particularly how
their relationships with Pacific Islanders and with psychologist and ethnologist W.H.R.
Rivers influenced the missionary research process. By understanding these aspects of
their work, Fox and Bowie can be placed within a broader genealogy of Anglophone
missionary archaeology dating back to the late 18th century.
AB - ‘Missionary’ and ‘archaeology’ may appear incongruous partners within contemporary
archaeological practice, but archival, museum and oral sources reveal historical
connections. This paper explores two missionaries, active in the western Pacific from
1896 to 1973. Reverends Charles Elliot Fox (Melanesian Mission, Solomon Islands)
and Frederick Gatherer Bowie (Free Church of Scotland Mission, Vanuatu) both
conducted studies related to the prehistory and migration of Pacific people. Both
produced material assemblages, as well as textual and visual documents, and formed
ideas influenced by their own networks and self identities. The paper examines their
data collection methods and relationships with others, considering particularly how
their relationships with Pacific Islanders and with psychologist and ethnologist W.H.R.
Rivers influenced the missionary research process. By understanding these aspects of
their work, Fox and Bowie can be placed within a broader genealogy of Anglophone
missionary archaeology dating back to the late 18th century.
U2 - 10.1080/00223344.2019.1597627
DO - 10.1080/00223344.2019.1597627
M3 - Article
VL - 54
SP - 330
EP - 353
JO - Journal of Pacific History
JF - Journal of Pacific History
SN - 0022-3344
IS - 3
ER -