The Wandering Life Among Unreliable Islanders: the German South Sea Expedition in Micronesia

Berg, Mark (1985). The Wandering Life Among Unreliable Islanders: the German South Sea Expedition in Micronesia (Report).

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Abstract: "The Wandering Life Among Unreliable Islanders": The German South Sea Expedition in Micronesia. The German South Sea Expedition of 1903-1910 was undertaken by the Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung in Micronesia in 1909 and 1910. The aim of this paper is to discuss the expedition itself: how it came about, who went on it, where they went and some of the things that happened to them. Secondly, the results of the expedition. Published under the title Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910 1903-1910 will be discussed and comments made on the contents and on the picture of the Caroline and Marshall Islands that emerges from the official diary of the expedition kept by Franz Hellwig. Thirdly, the colonial conditions surrounding the expedition will be considered in light of Hans Fischer's remarks on the subject in his book Die Hamburger Südsee-Expedition: Uber Ethnographie und Kolonialismus (Frankfurt am Main 1931). The results tell us a good deal about social conditions prevailing at the time of the expedition simply because of the great detail in which life in the islands was described by Hellwig in the official diary. This will be brought out in the course of the Paper. Lastly/ the weaknesses and the strengths of the results and their legacy for historians and Micronesians will be discussed.

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