Person

Watson, Elliot Lovegood Grant (1885 - 1970)

Born
14 June 1885
Staines, Middlesex, England
Died
21 May 1970
Petersfield, Hampshire, England
Occupation
Anthropologist and Biologist

Summary

Elliot Watson joined A. Radcliffe-Browne in 1910 as Assistant Anthropologist on a scientific expedition to study Aboriginal society in north western Australia. He visited Australia again in 1912 and used images of the bush in his later writings.

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson - Records, 1910 - 1955, MS 4950; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Green, Dorothy, 'Watson, Elliot Lovegood Grant (1885-1970), biologist, writer and mystic' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 397-398. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120447b.htm. Details

Resources

McCarthy, G.J.

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260