04635oam 2200841zu 450 991016965870332120250530071047.01-921313-24-2(CKB)3170000000065354(SSID)ssj0000671441(PQKBManifestationID)12347670(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000671441(PQKBWorkID)10633088(PQKB)10352228(MiAaPQ)EBC4769209(EXLCZ)99317000000006535420160829d2007 uy engtxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCulture in translation : the anthropological legacy of R. H. Mathews[Place of publication not identified]ANU E Press2007Aboriginal history monograph series Culture in translation.Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph"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.EthnologistsSocial life and customsAustraliaBiographyEthnologyLanguagesAustraliaAboriginal AustraliansAnthropology - Theory and criticismaiatsissCeremonies - Secret / sacredaiatsissSocial organisation - KinshipaiatsissSocial organisation - Kinship - SystemsaiatsissArt - Rock artaiatsissStories and motifsaiatsissInitiation - SubincisionaiatsissInitiationaiatsissGundungurra / Gandangara people S60aiatsislBundjalung people E12aiatsislWayilwan language D20aiatsislKurnu language D25aiatsislKurnu people D25aiatsislBidawal people S49aiatsislGubbi Gubbi people E29aiatsislMortlake / Mount Shadwell (W Vic SJ54-12)aiatsispMount Coolangatta (NSW S Coast SI56-09)aiatsispAustraliaSocial life and customsEthnologistsSocial life and customsEthnologyLanguagesAboriginal Australians.Anthropology - Theory and criticism.Ceremonies - Secret / sacred.Social organisation - Kinship.Social organisation - Kinship - Systems.Art - Rock art.Stories and motifs.Initiation - Subincision.Initiation.Gundungurra / Gandangara people S60.Bundjalung people E12.Wayilwan language D20.Kurnu language D25.Kurnu people D25.Bidawal people S49.Gubbi Gubbi people E29.305.800994Mathews R. H(Robert Hamilton),1841-1918,1236260Thomas Martin(Martin Edward),1964-PQKBBOOK9910169658703321Culture in translation : the anthropological legacy of R. H. Mathews2870740UNINA