| Description |
viii, 269 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
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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.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Artifacts
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Aboriginal Australians -- Homes and haunts.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Material culture.
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Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Anthropologists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Ecologists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Australia -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Peterson, Nicolas.
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Rigsby, Bruce.
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Museum of Victoria.
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Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
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| LC no. |
2006411239 |
| ISBN |
0908290217 |
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