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Southern Anthropology - a History of Fison and Howitt’s Kamilaroi and Kurnai

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Authors:
  1. Helen Gardner

    1. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia

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  2. Patrick McConvell

    1. School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History (PASPH)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Southern Anthropology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: The Publication of Kamilaroi and Kurnai

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 3-15

    3. Morgan: Imagining Kinship

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 16-24

    4. The Unity of World Kinship: A Southern Perspective

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 25-40

  3. Finding Kin: Fison in the Antipodes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. The Apocalypse in the South: Fison in Victoria and Fiji

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 43-57

    3. Twice Converted: Fison’s Epiphany

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 58-71

    4. Cracks in the Theory: The Problems of the Pacific

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 72-86

    5. Fison’s Fiji Discovery and the Interpretation of Kinship History

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 87-99

  4. Kin and Skin

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Seeing Gamilaraay

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 103-115

    3. Evidence and Anomalies from Australian and Pacific Sites

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 116-131

    4. Howitt and Tulaba

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 132-155

    5. The Turn from Kin to Skin

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 156-173

  5. From Encounter to Page: The Writing of Kamilaroi and Kurnai

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Time, Human Difference and Evolution in Oceania

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 177-192

    3. Pen to Paper: Writing Kamilaroi and Kurnai

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 193-211

    4. Kamilaroi and Kurnai: The Content and the Form

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 212-228

    5. The Anthropology of Kinship in Kamilaroi and Kurnai

      • Helen Gardner, Patrick Mcconvell
      Pages 229-249
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About this book

Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) written from both a historical and anthropological perspective. Southern Anthropology investigates the authors' work on Aboriginal and Pacific people and the reception of their book in metropolitan centres.

Reviews

“Southern Anthropology presents a history of one of the most important nineteenth-century works on Australia's indigenous peoples, Lorimer Fison and Alfred William Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai, published in 1880. … Southern Anthropology is an impressive example of cross-discipline collaboration that is highly informative for both historians and anthropologists.” (Anje Kühnast, Bulletin of the Pacific Circle, Issue 39, October, 2017)

“I strongly recommend this book as a text to be read widely. It should be mandatory reading for undergraduate anthropology classes. It is engagingly written, comprehensively researched, and cogently argued. The inclusion of a glossary of terms provides an excellent resource touchstone for students unfamiliar with intricate anthropological concepts. Historians especially will find this of value.” (Lynette Russell, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 48 (1), February, 2017)

“‘Southern Anthropology’ is … an important book and part of a growing body of literature focused on the development of anthropological theory and method in the antipodes at a time when the antiquity and origins of humanity were being keenly debated within the centres of colonial power.” (Jason Gibson, Anthropos, Vol. 112 (2), 2017)

'Southern Anthropology makes an important and original contribution to the history of Anglophone and Antipodean anthropology'. - Professor Nicolas Peterson, Australian National University

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia

    Helen Gardner

  • School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia

    Patrick McConvell

About the authors

Helen Gardner is an historian of colonialism, anthropology and mission in the Pacific Islands and Australia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Patrick McConvell is an anthropologist and linguist with particular interests in Indigenous Australia, interdisciplinary prehistory and kinship. He is engaged with the ARC Discovery Project 'Kin and Skin' (AustKin).

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