Person
Davidson, Daniel Sutherland (1900 - 1952)
- Born
- 9 July 1900
Cohoes, United States of America - Died
- 26 December 1952
Altamonte Springs, Florida, United States of America - Occupation
- Anthropologist
Summary
Daniel Davidson was an American anthropologist who specialized in studies of the people of Oceania, especially Australian Aborigines. He visited Australia twice in 1930-1931 and 1938-1940 to conduct field work in northern Australia and to view numerous public and private museums. In 1934 and again in 1936 he discovered unpublished work by E. Hassell on Aboriginal life during the 1800s in south-western Australia. Davidson complied, edited and published these works. Over all he produced around forty publications on the life, culture and tribal delineations of Australian Aborigines.
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Chronology
- 1923
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Pennsylvania, USA
- 1924
- Education - Master of Arts (AM), University of Pennsylvania
- 1924 - 1931
- Career position - Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
- 1928
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Pennsylvania
- 1930 - 1931
- Career position - Field work and museum visits in Australia
- 1932 - 1933
- Career position - Lecturer, University of Buffalo, USA
- 1934 - 1940
- Career position - Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
- 1938 - 1940
- Career position - Field work and museum visits in Australia
- 1940 - 1946
- Career position - Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
- 1942 - 1944
- Career position - Secretary and Treasurer, American Folk-lore Society
- 1947 - 1948
- Career position - Professor?, University of Oregon, USA
- 1949 - 1952
- Career position - Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington, USA
Published resources
Book Sections
- McCarthy, F. D., 'Davidson, Daniel Sutherland (1900-1952)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 224-225. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080245b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Davidson, D., 'Archaeological problems of Northern Australia', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 65 (1935), 145-84. https://doi.org/10.2307/2843847. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536658. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/52064727. Details
- 'Davidson, Daniel Sutherland (1900-1952)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-806205. Details
See also
- Spriggs, Matthew, 'Everything you've been told about the history of Australian archaeology is wrong', Bulletin of the history of archaeology, 30 (1:3) (2020), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-626. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 February 2018
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