Letters to Edward Burnett Tylor, 1879-1895. 1879-1895.

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Letters to Edward Burnett Tylor, 1879-1895. 1879-1895.

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Mostly describes Fijian customs; collaboration with A.W. Howitt on Aboriginal kinship, marriage and sexual relationships in book Kamilaroi and Kurnai; mention of initiation ceremonies; comments on contemporary works on Aborigines by Dawson, Curr, Mathews and Fraser; Codringtons Melanesian/Aboriginal comparisons on kinship.

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Curr, Edward M. (Edward Micklethwaite), 1820-1889

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Francillon, Mark.

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Fraser, John H.

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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...

Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton), 1841-1918

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Surveyor and anthropologist. After his retirement as a surveyor in the early 1890s, he spent twenty years researching the anthropology and languages of the Australian Aborigines. During this time he had over 100 papers published in anthropological and scientific journals. R.H. Mathews was the father of ornithologist Gregory Mathews. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1870-1946. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225829974 Surveyor turned anthropologist who ...

Codrington, R. H. (Robert Henry), 1830-1922

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Robert Henry Codrington was born on the 15 September 1830 in Wroughton, Wiltshire, England. He was educated at Charterhouse, and Wadham College, Oxford (he became a Fellow of the College in 1855). He was ordained as a Deacon in 1855 and as a Priest in 1857. In 1860 Codrington emigrated to Nelson, New Zealand, and joined the Melanesian Mission; he was head of the Mission from 1871 to 1877. He travelled throughout Melanesia making the first systematic study of Melanesian s...

Howitt, A. W. (Alfred William), 1830-1908

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Explorer, natural scientist and pioneer authority on Aboriginal culture and social organisation. From the description of Papers [microform]. 1861-1862. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 222929794 Explorer, natural scientist and pioneer authority on Aboriginal culture and social organization. From the description of Papers. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225770296 ...

Dawson, James, 1806-1900

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Author of books on ethnography, including "Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of Aborigines in the western district of Victoria." From the description of Letter. 1877. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225819564 ...