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Author Thomson, Donald F. (Donald Fergusson), 1901-1970.

Title Donald Thomson : the man and scholar / edited by Bruce Rigsby and Nicolas Peterson
Published Canberra : Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia with support from Museum Victoria, [2005]
©2005

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Description viii, 269 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
regular print
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
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
Analysis Biography & autobiography (Australia)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 245-265
Subject Thomson, Donald F. (Donald Fergusson), 1901-1970.
Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities.
Aboriginal Australians -- Artifacts
Aboriginal Australians -- Homes and haunts.
Aboriginal Australians -- Material culture.
Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
Anthropologists -- Australia -- Biography.
Ecologists -- Australia -- Biography.
SUBJECT Australia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315
Genre/Form Biography.
Biographies.
Author Peterson, Nicolas.
Rigsby, Bruce.
Museum of Victoria.
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
LC no. 2006411239
ISBN 0908290217
Other Titles Donald Thomson, the man and scholar