Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP160100192
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Howitt & Fison’s anthropology. Howitt & Fison’s anthropology. This project will systematically analyse nineteenth century anthropologists Lorimer Fison and A.W. Howitt’s accounts of Indigenous kinship, social organisation, and local languages, and historical encounters between settlers and Indigenous people. This project will assemble Fison and Howitt’s meticulous records into best-practice digital formats, with widely accessible interactive data presentation, and bring these extraordinary records to the broadest possible community. This research, which integrates anthropology, history and linguistics, is expected to open up new dimensions in Australian history, anthropological theory, and Australian linguistics.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 12-2016
End Date: 12-2021
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $441,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Archival, Repository and Related Studies | Linguistic Anthropology | Anthropology | Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Understanding Australia's Past | Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritage | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage |
