Person

Fison, Lorimer (1832 - 1907)

Born
9 November 1832
Barningham, Suffolk, England
Died
29 December 1907
Essendon, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Anthropologist, Minister of religion and Missionary

Summary

Lorimer Fison was a Wesleyan missionary in Fiji from 1863 to 1871 and from 1875 to 1884. During these periods he made pioneering studies of the Fijian people. Returning to Australia he turned he attention to Australia's indigenous people. Fison was the joint author with A.W. Howitt of "Kamilaroi and Kurnai" and maintained correspondence with American workers in his field.

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Chronology

1892
Career position - President, Section F (Ethnology and Anthropology), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

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Archival resources

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Lorimer Fison - Records, 1870 - 1881; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Gardner, Helen and McConvell, Patrick, Southern anthropology: a history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 329 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Stanner, W. E. H., 'Fison, Lorimer (1832-1907), Wesleyan missionary, anthropologist and journalist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1972), pp. 175-176. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040189b.htm. Details

Edited Books

  • Benson, C. Irving ed., A Century of Victorian Methodism (Melbourne: 1935). Details

Journal Articles

  • Brown, G., 'Lorimer Fison', Asian Methodist Missionary Review (1908). Details
  • Stern, B. J. (ed), 'Selections From the Letters of Lorimer Fison...to Lewis Henry Morgan', American Anthropologist, 32 (1930). Details

Resources

See also

McCarthy, G.J.

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