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Culture and translation : the anthropological legacy of R. H. Mathews / edited by Martin Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Aboriginal History Monograph ; 15
- Aboriginal History Monograph ; 15.
- Language:
- Australian languages
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton), 1841-1918.
- Mathews, R. H.
- Ethnologists--Australia--Biography.
- Ethnologists.
- Ethnology--Australia--Biography.
- Ethnology.
- Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : ANU E Press, [2007].
- System Details:
- text file rda
- Summary:
- R. H. Mathews (1841-1918) was an Australian-born surveyor and self-taught anthropologist. From 1893 until his death in 1918, he made it his mission to record all ‘new and interesting facts’ about Aboriginal Australia. Despite falling foul with some of the most powerful figures in British and Australian anthropology, Mathews published some 2200 pages of anthropological reportage in English, French and German. His legacy is an outstanding record of Aboriginal culture in the Federation period. This first edited collection of Mathews’ writings represents the many facets of his research, ranging from kinship study to documentation of myth. It include eleven articles translated from French or German that until now have been unavailable in English. Introduced and edited by Martin Thomas, who compellingly analyses the anthropologist, his milieu, and the intrigues that were so costly to his reputation, Culture in Translation is essential reading on the history of cross-cultural research. The translations from the French are by Mathilde de Hauteclocque and from the German by Christine Winter.
- Contents:
- Part 1: Rock art and daily life
- Part 2: Kinship and marriage
- Part 3: Mythology
- Part 4: Language
- Part 5: Ceremony
- Part 6: Correspondence.
- Notes:
- Translations from the French by Mathilde de Hauteclocque and from the German by Christine Winter.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print record, CIP data from the publisher, and e-publication e-publication, viewed on May 27, 2021.
- ISBN:
- 9781921313257
- 1921313250
- Publisher Number:
- 10.26530/OAPEN_458929
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