| Ethnography has always been a controversial social science method (Behar & Gordon, 1995; Clifford & Marcus, 1986; Denzin, 1997; Hammersley, 1992). A journey back to ethnography's origination involves former headhunters, misdeeds of missionaries, and explorers crossing barriers of social class. (Haddon, 1901). The protagonist is the founding father of ethnographic fieldwork. Yet the American academy barely knows his name.;A. C. Haddon's leadership of the 1898 Cambridge expedition to the Torres Strait played a pivotal role in the development of ethnographic method. It is, however, by many scholarly accounts, a story untold (Grimshaw, 2001; Herle & Rouse, 1998; Kuklick, 1991; Stocking, 1987; Costall, 1999). The reperformance of Haddon's vision is set on the stage of British colonialism (Asad, 1991; Cohn, 1996; Said, 1994). The plot is the development of Western social science, in the context of colonial imperialism, and scientific racism.;Haddon's life is documented in field journals and correspondence known as The Haddon Papers. They are maintained at the Cambridge University Library in the United Kingdom. Ethnographic method recovers Haddon's original vision combining archival materials and Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia to perform archival rationalization (Bahktin, 1984; Stallybrass & White, 1986; Robertson, 2004). Remembering Haddon is an act of resistance as it disrupts the thinning of Western social science history resultant of disciplinary and theoretical hegemony (Asad, 2002; Smith, 1999). Framing this ethnography and Haddon's work as performance highlights the utility of reflexive method in a globalizing world and remembers a pretheoretical methodology hidden in the twilight of colonial history.;Keywords: A.C. Haddon, archive, archival rationalization, ethnography, postcolonial, visual ethnography, performance ethnography, Denzin, Bahktin, feminist theory, resistance. |
