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" Culture in translation : "
author, R.H. Mathews ; editor, Martin Thomas.
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BL
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673466
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b502655
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| Main Entry
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Mathews, R. H., (Robert Hamilton),1841-1918.
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Culture in translation : : the anthropological legacy of R.H. Mathews /\ author, R.H. Mathews ; editor, Martin Thomas.
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| Publication Statement
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Acton, A.C.T. :: ANU E Press,, 2007.
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| Series Statement
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Aboriginal history monograph ;; no. 15.
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1 online resource.
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| ISBN
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1921313242
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: 1921313250
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: 9781921313240
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: 9781921313257
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1921313250
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Abstract
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"Almost 90 years on from his death, this is the first book-length collection of the writings of Robert Hamilton Mathews. It has been a long wait for the Australian-born surveyor who began his career as an anthropologist at the age of 52 with the 1893 publication of a brief paper on New South Wales rock art. Apart from a few short booklets, Mathews book of 1905, Ethnological Notes on the Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales and Victoria, was his only work of anthropology to be published as a freestanding volume. A reprint of a long article published the previous year, it was a modest tome in that age of doorstopper monographs - 'little more than a pamphlet' according to Mathews' friend, the British folklorist E.S. Hartland. There was certainly an expectation that a writer so prolific as Mathews would disseminate his work in a substantial book. As Arnold van Gennep, the Parisian anthropologist, pointed out to him, 'your publications are for the most part overlooked because they are scattered amongst a mass of periodicals and it is a very difficult matter to have them all at one time in hand ... '. Van Gennep recommended that Mathews immediately arrange for their 'publication in 2 or 3 volumes' - advice endorsed by Hartland who was enlisted to work with Mathews ornithologist son Gregory, then living in England, to place a manuscript with a London publisher (see Correspondence, this volume). But these efforts were unsuccessful and R.H. Mathews died in 1918 without ever publishing his magnum opus."--Provided by publisher.
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Mathews, R. H., (Robert Hamilton),1841-1918.
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Aboriginal Australians-- Languages.
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Aboriginal Australians-- Social life and customs.
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Ethnology-- Australia-- History.
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305.800994
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GN21.M268
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Thomas, Martin Edward.
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