Margaret McArthur

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Annie Margaret McArthur , married Margaret Oliver (born December 6, 1919 in Ararat , Victoria , Australia , † May 12, 2002 in Honolulu , New South Wales , Australia) was an Australian nutritionist and anthropologist .

Life

Margaret McArthur studied at the University of Melbourne , graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1941 and a Master of Science the following year . She worked as a biochemist and bacteriologist in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and graduated as a nutritionist from the Australian Institute of Anatomy in Canberra in 1946 . During field studies, she was a member of the New Guinea expedition of the Commonwealth Department of Health in 1947 and of the eight-month American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948 . She examined not only the quality of food of nomadic living Aborigines of Australia, but also in scope. During this time, she lived with the Aboriginal women and thus gained an insight into the lives of women and their importance and relationships in indigenous society.

From 1953 to 1957 she was on field studies with the Kunimaipa in Papua. She returned there in 1968 to study the social change of this population group since 1957.

Her research in New Guinea and Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory in Australia led her to enroll for a postgraduate degree in Social Anthropology at the University of London. Two grants from the University of Sydney and the Royal Anthropology Institute in London enabled her to carry out further field studies in Papua, the results of which led her to complete her doctoral thesis in 1962 . Before that, her work had already gained international recognition. She received scientific commissions from the WHO and FAO , which took her to Malaysia , Indonesia and Africa.

Margaret McArthur returned to Australia in 1965. She became the first female lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Sydney University and five years later an associate professor. From 1973 to 1974 she was a Senior Fellow at the Food Institute of the East-West Center, Hawaii . There she devoted herself to the social aspects of the indigenous population in the Pacific region and developed corresponding training programs. Margaret McArthur left Sydney for Honolulu in 1976 to marry Douglas Olivier , an Australian-born professor of anthropology at Harvard University . She shared her research interests with him.

Honors

In her and her husband's honor, the University of Melbourne established the McArthur Fellowship to promote doctoral scholarships in the human and social sciences.

Works

  • McArthur, M. (Ed.), (1960): Report of the Nutrition Unit, Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (Volume 2). Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
  • McArthur, M. (1960): Food consumption and dietary levels of the Aborigines at the settlements , Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (Volume 2), Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, pp. 14-26.
  • McArthur, M. (1960): Food consumption and dietary levels of groups of Aborigines living on naturally occurring foods , Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (Volume 2). Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, pp. 90-135.
  • McArthur Oliver M., Specht, Ray L. (2002): 1919-2002, Australian Aboriginal Studies ; Issue 2; Pp. 122-124.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sydney.edu.au (PDF; 49 kB): P.205 Papers of Dr Annie Margaret McARTHUR, 1919-2002 , in English, accessed on January 13, 2013
  2. ^ "Margaret McArthur 1919-2002" ( April 10, 2013 memento in the Internet Archive ), Australian Women's History Forum.
  3. ↑ “The Thomas and Margaret Ruth McArthur Fellowships” ( Memento from May 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), unimelb.edu.au (PDF; 10 kB).
personal data
SURNAME McArthur, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McArthur, Annie Margaret (full name); McArthur Oliver, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian nutritionist and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Ararat , Victoria , Australia
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2002
Place of death Honolulu , New South Wales , Australia