Abstract
In 1898, Alfred Cort Haddon proclaimed the indispensability of the cinematograph to serious anthropological work. Just three years after the Lumière brothers had proudly shown off their invention to delighted audiences in Paris and London, Haddon and his team of scientists included a cinematograph in the fieldwork equipment they carried with them to the Torres Strait islands, located off the north-eastern coast of Australia.
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Grimshaw, A. (2015). Undisciplined Practice. In: Bammer, A., Joeres, RE.B. (eds) The Future of Scholarly Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137505965_12
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