Culture in Translation

Culture in Translation

The anthropological legacy of R. H. Mathews

Edited by: Martin Thomas

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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.

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Details

ISBN (print):
9781921313240
ISBN (online):
9781921313257
Publication date:
Sep 2007
Note:
Aboriginal History Monograph 15
Imprint:
ANU Press
DOI:
http://doi.org/10.22459/CT.09.2007
Series:
Aboriginal History Monographs
Co-publisher:
Aboriginal History
Disciplines:
Arts & Humanities: Cultural Studies, History; Social Sciences: Anthropology, Indigenous Studies
Countries:
Australia

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Introducing R. H. Mathews

Part 1: Rock Art and Daily Life

Part 2: Kinship and Marriage

Part 3: Mythology

Part 4: Language

Part 5: Ceremony

Part 6: Correspondence

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