TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas, Martin
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_458929
ID  - OAPEN ID: 458929
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030815976
KW  - australia
KW  - aboriginal australians
KW  - ethnology
KW  - customs
KW  - social life
KW  - languages
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Indigenous Australians
KW  - New South Wales
KW  - Robert Hamilton Mathews
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/3645ca86-4c24-4edc-91e7-5b771d8ce1ac/458929.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33781
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2007
TI  - Culture and Translation: recovering he legacy of R.H Mathewsnull
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