Hamburg South Sea Expedition 1908–1910

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The Hamburg South Sea Expedition was one between the 8. July 1908 and 22. April 1910 carried out the South Seas - Expedition to the Bismarck Archipelago and the Caroline Islands , by the Hamburg Scientific Foundation was equipped. The expedition was organized by the director of the Hamburg Ethnographic Museum , Georg Thilenius (1868–1937).

The crew of the researched Hapag - steamer Peiho under Captain Richard Vahsel the islands of the South Pacific.

Members of the expedition on the steamer Peiho

Under the leadership of Friedrich Fülleborn (1866–1933), the island world of Melanesia was explored in the first year of the trip , and the area in Micronesia in the second year under the new direction of Augustin Krämer (1865–1941) .

"The documents that have been preserved in Hamburg (files, letters, diaries, photo plates) show the frightening impartiality with which scientific research and colonial interest mingled."

people

Paul Hambruch (1882–1932) - Augustin Krämer (1865–1941) - Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow (1874–1945) - Hans Nevermann (1902–1982) - Wilhelm Müller (1881–1916) - Georg Thilenius (1868–1937) - Friedrich Fülleborn (1866–1933) - Ernst Gotthilf Sarfert (1882–1937) - Hans Damm (1895–1972) - Anneliese Eilers (1900–1953) - Otto Reche (1879–1966) - Robert Herzenberg (1885–1955) - Ferdinand Hefele - Franz Emil Hellwig (1854–1929) - Georg Duncker (1870–1953)

publication

The results of the research trip were published as part of a series of publications, the results of the South Seas Expedition 1908–1910 , up until the 1950s. The ethnographic findings were mostly the focus.

The volumes were initially edited by Georg Thilenius. They have been published by Friederichsen in Hamburg since 1914 , and by Friederichsen & DeGruyter from 1929.

The overall series follows the structure:

  • 1. General
  • 2: Ethnography A: Melanesia
  • 2: Ethnography B: Micronesia

There are several half-volumes or partial volumes, departments, etc.

ethnography

Photo taken on the expedition of a woman from Jaluit Island in the Ralik Range ( Marshall Islands ) wearing a traditional collar.

Micronesia

  • Volume 1: Nauru . Paul Hambruch
    • Half volume 1: Friederichsen, Hamburg 1914 ( online )
    • Half volume 2: Friederichsen, Hamburg 1915 ( online )
  • Volume 2: Yap . Wilhelm Müller (1881-1916)
    • Half volume 1: Friederichsen, Hamburg 1917 ( online )
    • Half volume 2: texts. Friederichsen, Hamburg 1918 ( online )
  • Volume 3: Palau / Augustin Krämer
    • Volume 1: Section I: History of Discovery. Department II: Geography. Friederichsen, Hamburg 1917 ( online )
    • Volume 2: Division III: Settlements, districts, villages, constitution. Division IV: Demography, Anthropology, Language. Friederichsen, Hamburg 1919 ( online )
    • Volume 3: Division V: Material. Department VI: Spiritual Culture. Friederichsen, Hamburg 1926 ( online )
    • Volume 4: Division VII: Stories and Songs. Section VIII: Botanical, Zoological and Palauwort Index. Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1929 ( online )
    • Volume 5: Division IX: Ornamental Art and Comparison of Cultures. Department X: Building Directory. Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1929 ( online )
    • English translation 2014–2015: Online
  • Volume 4: Kusae / Ernst Gotthilf Sarfert
    • Part 1: General part and material culture / Ernst Gotthilf Sarfert. Friederichsen, Hamburg 1919 ( online )
    • Part 2: Spiritual Culture / Ernst Gotthilf Sarfert. Friederichsen, Hamburg 1920 ( online )
  • Volume 5: Truk / by Augustin Krämer . Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1932 ( online )
  • Volume 6: Islands around Truk (Central-Karolinen Ost) / Augustin Krämer
  • Volume 7: Ponape / Paul Hambruch and Anneliese Eilers
    • Volume 1: General part: history, geography, language, indigenous authors: Hambruch, Paul. Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1932 ( online )
    • Volume 2: Society and intellectual culture, economy and material culture Author: Hambruch, Paul; Eilers, Anneliese. Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1936 ( online )
    • Volume 3: The ruins. Ponapegeschichten Author: Hambruch, Paul. Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1936 ( online )
  • Volume 8: Islands around Ponape: Kapingamarangi , Nukuor , Ngatik , Mokil , Pingelap / by Anneliese Eilers. Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1934 ( online )
  • Volume 9: West Karolinen / Anneliese Eilers.
    • Half volume 1: Songosor , Pur , Merir . Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1935 ( online )
    • Half volume 2: Tobi and Ngulu / by Anneliese Eilers. Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1936 ( online )
  • Volume 10: Central Carolines / Augustin Krämer
    • Half volume 1: Lámotrek group , Oleai , Feis / by Augustin Krämer. Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1937 ( online )
    • Half volume 2: Ifaluk , Aurepik , Faraulip , Sorol , Mogemog  : based on the notes by Hambruch and E. Sarfert / arr. by Hans Damm / Hambruch, Paul; Sarfert, Ernst Gotthilf. Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1938 ( online )
  • Volume 11: Ralik - Ratak ( Marshall Islands ) / by Augustin Krämer and Hans Nevermann; Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1938 ( online )
  • Volume 12: Luangiua and Nukumanu  : with appendix on Sikayana , Nuguria , Tauu and Carteret Islands / based on the notes of Ernst Sarfert, edited. by Hans Damm. ( Online )
    • Half Volume 1: General Part and Material Culture. Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1929 ( online )
    • Half volume 2: Social conditions and intellectual culture. Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1931 ( online )

Melanesia

General

  • General. Georg Thilenius . Friederichsen, Hamburg 1927 ( online )
    • Expedition plan / by G. Thilenius
    • Diary of the expedition / by FE Hellwig
    • Nautical science and meteorology (1st year of travel) / by Ferdinand Hefele
    • The investigation of the collected rock samples (1st and 2nd year of travel) / by R. Herzenberg

literature

  • Hans Vogel-Hamburg: A research trip in the Bismarck Archipelago . Friederichsen & Co., Hamburg 1911.
  • Hans Fischer : The Hamburg South Sea Expedition. About ethnography and colonialism . Syndicate authors and publishing company, Frankfurt 1981
  • Andreas Leipold: The first year of the Hamburg South Sea Expedition in German New Guinea (1908–1909). European University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86741-059-5
  • Antje Kelm: In the first year from the ship. The Hamburg South Seas expedition in the island world of New Guinea . In: Hamburg - Südsee. Volume 33, 2003, pp. 92-141.
  • Reymer Klüver: The emperor's new peoples: German colonialism in the South Seas. In: GEO. Hamburg No. 06, 2004
  • Daniel Schmidt-Brucken et al. (Ed.): Colonial Linguistics. Language in Colonial Contexts. Berlin, De Gruyter 2015 ( online )

See also

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Hans Fischer: The Hamburg South Sea Expedition. About ethnography and colonialism . P. 49
  2. ↑ Hans Fischer (1981), publisher's text on the back of the front title
  3. ↑ See also his: