Fijian Students' Examination Papers 1879-1882

Fison, Lorimer, 1832-1907

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Clergyman and anthropologist. Joint author (with A.W. Howitt) of Kamilaroi and Kurnai. From the description of Correspondence [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225756881 Lorimer Fison was a Wesleyan missionary, anthropologist and journalist. He worked in Fiji as a missionary from 1863-1871 and 1875-1884. Fison published influential works on Fijian systems of kinship and land tenure; later he conducted careful studies of Aboriginal culture and social or...

Mission Training Institution Navuola, Fiji

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Mission Training Institution, Navuola

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Lorimer Fison (1832-1907) was born on 9 November 1832. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1855, but departed that year for Australia. He was ordained a Wesleyan minister in 1863, and worked as a missionary in Fiji, 1863-1871, during which time he studied native kinship. Fison carried out anthropological research in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, 1871-1875, and in Fiji, 1875-1884. He lived in Melbourne from 1888 to 1905, and died at Essenden, Victoria, on 29 December 1...