Frederick McCarthy (anthropologist)

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Frederick David McCarthy (born August 13, 1905 in Petersham , New South Wales , Australia ; † November 18, 1997 ) was an Australian anthropologist who dealt mainly with the culture of the Aborigines .

Early life

His father was from Liverpool in the UK and his mother from Glasgow . At the age of 14 he was employed as a carpenter at the Australian Museum in Sydney in 1920 . Shortly afterwards he received an offer to work as a librarian in the museum library. From 1930 he worked in the Department of Ornithology and Reptile Science. In 1932 he was offered the position of assistant curator for ethnology . In 1933 he enrolled at Sydney University in anthropology . After completing their studies, McCarthy and Elsie Bramell, who studied with him and married him in 1940, became the first trained anthropologists and archaeologists to work at the Australian Museum.

scientist

In 1941 he was appointed curator of the Australian Museum's anthropological collection. In 1948 McCarthy took part in the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory , which was carried out by Charles Mountford . In 1964 he became the Foundation Principal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies , later the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).

Frederick McCarthy has published more than 300 scientific articles and monographs .

In 1938 he brought out the first of eight publications Australian Aboriginal decorative art and in 1946 with Bramell and Herbert V. Noone The stone implements of Australia . In 1957 he published his work Australia's Aborigines: their life and culture , the first general scientific publication on the subject. After studying Aboriginal art in northwestern Australia and rock engraving in the central west of New South Wales in 1958, he published the first of four editions of Australian Aboriginal rock art . In 1961 he described 43 Aboriginal dance dramas and collected sculptures that are now part of the National Museum of Australia . In his work Artists of the sandstone he described the ethnography of the Aborigines in the Sydney region.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ australianmuseum.net.au (PDF; 1.2 MB): Kate Khan: Frederick David McCarthy: an Appreciation , in English, accessed on December 13, 2013
  2. ↑ a b aiatsis.gov.au ( Memento of February 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 285 kB): Fred McCarthy: the founding principal of AIATSIS , in English, accessed on December 13, 2013
  3. ^ Jstor.org : Frederic David McCarthy , in English, accessed December 13, 2013
personal data
SURNAME McCarthy, Frederick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCarthy, Frederick David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Petersham , New South Wales , Australia
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1997