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Donald Thomson : the man and scholar / edited by Bruce Rigsby and Nicolas Peterson.

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Donald Thomson : the man and scholar / edited by Bruce Rigsby and Nicolas Peterson.
Publication
Canberra : Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia with support from Museum Victoria, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Rigsby, Bruce.
  • Peterson, Nicolas
  • Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
  • Museum of Victoria.
Description
viii, 269 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 25 cm.
Summary
Donald Thomson's contributions in advocacy of Aboriginal rights, his contributions to ornithology, ecology and for his journalism earned him a spot in the public eye in the 1930's and 40's. This volume is a first assessment of Thomson's life and work.
Subject
  • Thomson, Donald F. 1901-1970
  • Anthropologists > Australia > Biography
  • Ecologists > Australia > Biography
  • Australia > Social life and customs
Genre/Form
Biographies
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 245-265.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Introduction / Bruce Rigsby and Nicolas Peterson -- 2. Anthropology through a biological lens / Athol Chase -- 3. Thomson's place in Australian anthropology / Nicolas Peterson -- 4. 'A photographer of brilliance' / Lindy Allen -- 5. Ecologist and public educator / Ian Temby -- 6. Thomson's contribution to our herpetology and entomology knowledge of central Australia / Alan Yen and John Coventry -- 7. A deep-seated aversion or prudish disapproval: relations with Elkin / Geoffrey Gray -- 8. Anthropology, Aboriginality and Aboriginal rights / Bain Attwood -- 9. The Lake Tyers Aboriginal community, assimilation policy and practice / Alan West -- 10. The languages of eastern Cape York Peninsula and linguistic anthropology / Bruce Rigsby -- 11. Science and sensibility on a foul frontier: at Flinders Island, 1935 / Peter Sutton -- 12. Thomson at Gaarrtji / Ad Borsboom -- 13. The first biographer of baskets / Louise Hamby -- 14. The study of indigenous ethno-architecture in Australia / Paul Memmott and Shaneen Fantin -- 15. Images of Port Stewart: possible interpretations / Diane Hafner -- 16. The line drawings, paintings and painted photographs of five women artists / Moira F. Playne.
ISBN
0908290217 :
OCLC
  • 62564609
  • SCSB-10653816
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library