R. H. Mathews and anthropological warfare: On writing the biography of a 'self-contained man'

Thomas, MH

R. H. Mathews and anthropological warfare: On writing the biography of a 'self-contained man'

Thomas, MH

Permalink

Publisher:: Aboriginal History Inc.
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Aboriginal History, 2004, 28 (1), pp. 1 - 32
Issue Date:: 2004-01

Open Access

Copyright Clearance Process

Recently Added
In Progress
Open Access

This item is open access.

Adobe PDF

Download full textAdobe PDF (1.1 MB)

View statistics

Full metadata record

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Thomas, MH	en_US
dc.date.issued	2004-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Aboriginal History, 2004, 28 (1), pp. 1 - 32	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0314-8769	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/1143
dc.description.abstract	It is now almost three decades since AP Elkin published in Oceania a three-part article titled `RH Mathews: his contribution to Aboriginal studies.1 Recently I have been pursuing my own research into Mathews, gathering material for a book that Elkin, had he found the time, might well have written: a biographical study of the surveyor-turned anthropologist. To use a term that Mathews once employed for extracting information from informants, I have found it a process of `long & patient hammering.2 Although Mathews anthropological career, which lasted from the early 1890s until his death in 1918, gives him presence in a wealth of documentary records, he remains a difficult quarry for the biographer.	en_US
dc.format	No Code	en_US
dc.publisher	Aboriginal History Inc.	en_US
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/F00104426
dc.relation.ispartof	Aboriginal History	en_US
dc.title	R. H. Mathews and anthropological warfare: On writing the biography of a 'self-contained man'	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	1	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	28	en_US
utslib.for	2005 Literary Studies	en_US
utslib.for	2103 Historical Studies	en_US
utslib.for	2099 Other Language, Communication and Culture	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.consider-herdc	false	en_US
pubs.issue	1	en_US
pubs.volume	28	en_US

Abstract:

It is now almost three decades since AP Elkin published in Oceania a three-part article titled `RH Mathews: his contribution to Aboriginal studies.1 Recently I have been pursuing my own research into Mathews, gathering material for a book that Elkin, had he found the time, might well have written: a biographical study of the surveyor-turned anthropologist. To use a term that Mathews once employed for extracting information from informants, I have found it a process of `long & patient hammering.2 Although Mathews anthropological career, which lasted from the early 1890s until his death in 1918, gives him presence in a wealth of documentary records, he remains a difficult quarry for the biographer.

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:

http://hdl.handle.net/10453/1143