ISBN |
0902793225 |
ISSN |
0141-2477 |
Title |
Australia in Oxford / edited by Howard Morphy and Elizabeth Edwards. |
Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Oxford [Eng.] : Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, c1988. |
Description |
96 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm. |
Series |
Monograph / Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford ISSN0141-2477 ; 4 |
Note |
Exhibition catalog. |
One map on p. [2] of cover. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
Contents |
Foreword / Sir Zelman Cowan -- William Dampier and his botanical collections / erena marner -- The peculiar natural history of New Holland /Steve Simpson -- The emerging shape / Elizabeth Edwards -- Sturt and his journeys /Catherine Hart -- Representation and reality: science and the visual image / Elizabeth Edwards -- The original Australians and the evolution of anthropology / Howard Morphy -- 'The foundations of all good and noble principles': Oxonians and the Australian universities in the nineteenth century / Richard Symonds -- Australians at Oxford / John Legge. |
Summary |
Papers explore early understandings of Australia as represented in the collections of the archives at Oxford; includes a chapter on the original Australians and the collections of Aboriginal art and artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum. |
Subjects |
Pitt Rivers Museum |
Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- Australia |
Aboriginal Australians -- History |
Education, Higher -- Australia -- History |
Aboriginal Australians -- Catalogs |
Anthropology -- Australia |
Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- Australia |
Aboriginal Australians -- Exhibitions. |
Natural history -- Australia -- Exhibitions |
Ethnological museums and collections -- England -- Oxford |
Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- French |
Australia -- In art |
Australia -- Discovery and exploration |
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Morphy, Howard (contributor.) |
Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952- (contributor.) |
Other Corporate Bodies |
Pitt Rivers Museum |
Series |
Monograph (Pitt Rivers Museum) ;4. |
Call number |
2016.536 |