Mathews, Robert Hamilton (1841 - 1918)

Summary

Robert Mathews wrote widely on Aboriginal culture and society.

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Published resources

Books

• Thomas, Martin, The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews: in Search of an Australian Anthropologist (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2011), 462 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Koch, Harold, 'R. H. Mathews' schema for the description of Australian languages' in Encountering Aboriginal languages: studies in the history of Australian linguistics, McGregor, William B., ed. (Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 2008), pp. 179-218. Details
• Martin, T., 'The Ethnomania of R. H. Mathews: Anthropology and the Rage for Collecting' in Limits of Location: Creating a Colony, Pointer, Gretchen and Jack, Sybil, eds (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2007), pp. 189-208. Details
• McBryde, Isabel, 'Mathews, Robert Hamilton (1841-1918), surveyor and anthropologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 225-226. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mathews-robert-hamilton-4169. Details

Edited Books

• Chapman, Valerie C; Read, Peter ed., Terrible hard biscuits: A reader in Aboriginal history (St Leonards, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin, 1996), xv, 284 pp. Pages 54. Details

Journal Articles

• Dun, W. S., 'Presidential address', Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 53 (1919), 1-28. Details
• Elkin, A. P., 'R.H. Mathews: his contribution to Aboriginal studies', Oceania, 2 (2) (1975), 126-52. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4461.1975.tb01901.x. Details
• Mathews, R. H., 'The rock paintings and carvings of the Australian Aborigines', Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 25 (1896), 145-63. https://doi.org/10.2307/2842395. Details
• Mathews, R. H., 'The rock paintings and carvings of the Australian Aborigines (part II)', Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 27 (1989), 532-41. https://doi.org/10.2307/2842773. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7273672. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/78445556. Details
• 'Mathews, R H (18410421-19180522)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-627226. Details

Reviews

• Thomas, Martin, The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews: in Search of an Australian Anthropologist. Sydney (2011)
  Howes, Hilary, Historical Records of Australian Science, 24 (1), (2013), 164-5, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12024. Details
• Thomas, Martin, The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews: in Search of an Australian Anthropologist. Sydney (2011)
  Lydon, Jane, 'Observing the Observer', History Australia, 9, (2012), 241-3. Details

See also

• Clarke, Philip A., 'The Aboriginal Australian cosmic landscape, part 2: plant connections with the skyworld', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 18 (1) (2015), 23-37. Details
• Flood, Josephine M., The moth hunters: Aboriginal prehistory of the Australian Alps (Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1980), 388 pp, https://www.ligatu.re/book/the-moth-hunters/. Details
• Leaman, Trevor M.; and Hamacher, Duane W., 'Baiami and the emu chase: an astronomical interpretation of a Wiradjuri dreaming associated with the Burbung', Journal of astronomical history and heritage, 22 (2) (2019), 225-37. http://www.narit.or.th/en/files/2019JAHHvol22/2019JAHH...22..225L.pdf. Details