| Description |
xxii, 267 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 26 cm |
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Aboriginal history monograph ; 15 |
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Aboriginal history monograph series ; 15
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| Summary |
"Almost 90 years on from his death, this is the first book-length collection of the writings of Robert Hamilton Mathews. It has been a long wait for the Australian-born surveyor who began his career as an anthropologist at the age of 52 with the 1893 publication of a brief paper on New South Wales rock art. Apart from a few short booklets, Mathews' book of 1905, Ethnological Notes on the Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales and Victoria, was his only work of anthropology to be published as a freestanding volume. A reprint of a long article published the previous year, it was a modest tome in that age of doorstopper monographs - 'little more than a pamphlet' according to Mathews' friend, the British folklorist E. S. Hartland. There was certainly an expectation that a writer so prolific as Mathews would disseminate his work in a substantial book. As Arnold van Gennep, the Parisian anthropologist, pointed out to him, 'your publications are for the most part overlooked because they are scattered amongst a mass of periodicals and it is a very difficult matter to have them all at one time in hand....'. Van Gennep recommended that Mathews immediately arrange for their 'publication in 2 or 3 volumes' - advice endorsed by Hartland who was enlisted to work with Mathews ornithologist son Gregory, then living in England, to place a manuscript with a London publisher (see Correspondence, this volume). But these efforts were unsuccessful and R. H. Mathews died in 1918 without ever publishing his magnum opus." -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton), 1841-1918.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Languages.
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Ethnology -- Australia.
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Gundungurra -- Gundungura /Gandangara people (S60) (NSW SI56-09)
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Bundjalung -- Banjalang people (E12) (NSW SH56-02)
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Wailwan -- Weilwan language (D20) (NSW SH55-11)
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Kurnu -- Gunu language (D25) (NSW SH55-05)
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Bidawal -- Bidwell people (S49) (Vic SJ55-08)
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Gubbi Gubbi -- Kabi Kabi -- Gabi Gabi people (E29) (Qld SG56-06)
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| Author |
Thomas, Martin Edward
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De Hauteclocque, Mathilde
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Winter, Christine.
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Aboriginal History Inc
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| ISBN |
9781921313240 paperback |
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