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OM87-12 Walter Edmund Roth Papers
Papers of Walter Edmund Roth.
The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration
No family better represents the overlapping roles of administrator and scientist in the British empire than the Roths. Descended from a Hungarian emigrant to Australia, two generations of Roths served the empire on four continents and, at the same time, produced ethnographic, archaeological, and linguistic studies that form the basis for much modern research. This volume assesses the often-conflicting roles and contributions of the Roths as government servants and anthropologists. Most of the volume deals with Walter E. Roth, who developed foundational studies of both the Australian Aborigines—considered to be among the first systematic ethnographies anywhere—and South American tribes wh...
Ethnological Studies Among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Ethnological Studies Among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines The following pages embody the notes collected during that period. At Boulia, where strictly professional work was conspicuous by its absence, almost my whole time was devoted to a careful study of the local (Pitta-Pitta) language: only when this was sufficiently mastered did I find it possible to understand the complex system of social and individual nomenclature in vogue, and ultimately to gain such amount of confidence and trust among the natives as enabled me to obtain information concerning various superstitions, beliefs, and ceremonial rites which otherwise would in all probability have been withheld. ...
Walter E. Roth
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Roth Collection
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OM84-42 Walter E. Roth Correspondence
Note from Walter E. Roth.
The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration
This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology.
