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Anthropological Society of New South Wales

Darwin, Charles

Elkin, Adolphus Peter

Geddes, Bill

Hage, Ghassan

Johnson, Dianne

McCarthy, Frederick

Mead, Margaret

Miklouho-Maclay, Nikolai

Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred

von Scherzer, Karl

Portrait of Charles Darwin, late 1830s

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Anthropology

Anthropological Society of New South Wales

Society of predominantly amateur anthropologists formed in the 1920s at the Australian Museum.

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Darwin, Charles

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Naturalist who visited Sydney in 1836 during his 5-year voyage in the Beagle, when he began to formulate the theory of evolution.

Elkin, Adolphus Peter

Anglican clergyman and professor of anthropology who was a proponent of the assimilation of Indigenous Australians.

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Geddes, Bill

Anthropologist and academic who worked for cross-cultural understanding and tolerance.

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Hage, Ghassan

Lebanese born academic in the field of anthropology and social theory.

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Johnson, Dianne

Anthropologist whose interest in Papua New Guinea lead her to abandon teaching and pursue studies of indigenous affairs and the traditional owners of the Blue Mountains and Tasmania.

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McCarthy, Frederick

Anthropologist and archaeologist who had a long career starting at the age of 14 at the Australian Museum. His research was based on aboriginal prehistory and archaeology of Australia. He extensively recorded and photographed ethnographic aspects of aboriginal communities he visited. He also campaigned for the preservation of Aboriginal rock art and engravings. He was Foundation Principal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

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Mead, Margaret

American cultural anthropologist.

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Miklouho-Maclay, Nikolai

Ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who established the first marine research station in Sydney.

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Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred

Social anthropologist who studied the fundamental units of anthropology as processes of human life and interaction.

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von Scherzer, Karl

Austrian explorer, diplomat and naturalist.

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Portrait of Charles Darwin, late 1830s

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