William Edward Hanley Stanner

William Edward Hanley Stanner (born November 24, 1905 in Sydney - † October 8, 1981 in Canberra ), called "Bill" Stanner , was an Australian anthropologist who worked extensively with Australian Aborigines and played an important role in the establishment of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies . One of the main topics was research into the religion of the Aborigines .

He also headed the North Australia Observation Unit (NAOU), the " Nackeroos " or "Curtin's Cowboys", which were founded in March 1942 and dissolved in March 1945, which patrolled northern Australia after hostile activities.

In 1968 he coined the terms " Great Australian Silence " and "everywhen" in the Boyer Lectures entitled "After the Dreaming", in which he pondered the silence about the Aborigines in Australian history after the white settlement.

One of his earlier anthropological researches was devoted to the tribes of the Daly River .

Fonts

• After the Dreaming: Black and White Australians - an Anthropologist's View. Sydney: The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1969
• White Man Got No Dreaming: Essays, 1938-1973. Canberra Australian National University Press
• On Aboriginal religion. Sydney: University of Sydney, 1989 ( Oceania Monographs 36; Includes bibliographical references (p. Xxxvi-xxxi)); ISBN 0-86758-314-2
• "Reflections on Durkheim and Aboriginal Religion." In: Maurice Freedman : Social Organization: Essays presented to Raymond Firth . Frank Cass & Co., 1967, p. 217 ff.

literature

• On Aboriginal Religion: Stanner's Work (LR Hiatt)
• Britta Duelke: William Edward Hanley Stanner (On Aboriginal Religion). In: Christian F. Feest , Karl-Heinz Kohl (Hrsg.): Hauptwerke der Ethnologie (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 380). Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-38001-3 .

Web links

• Stanner, William Edward (Bill) (1905-1981)
• ABC Radio National
  • Report on Bill Stanner Hindsight, January 9, 2005
  • Battlefields of Aboriginal History Perspective October 24, 2005
• WEH Stanner: Anthropologist and Public Intellectual : a two-day symposium to mark the centenary of the birth of WEH Stanner (1905-1981) at the ANU Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Thursday 24 - Friday 25 November 2005
• Stanner Award references the Award established by AIATSIS in 1985 in recognition of the significant contribution of the late Emeritus Professor WEH (Bill) Stanner to the establishment and development of the Institute
• WEH Stanner building home of the Center for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University
• The WEH Stanner Collection The papers of William Edward Hanley Stanner were donated to AIATSIS by Mrs Patricia Stanner in 1982
• The paintings of Nym Bandak The paintings of Nym Bandak were presented by the National Gallery of Australia at an exhibition 'Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art in Modern Worlds' at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, the most significant exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art ever to travel abroad
• Aboriginal History Volumes 1, 3, 5 & 6 an annual refereed publication in the field of Australian ethnohistory, particularly in the post-contact history of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
• M Force references Lieutenant Colonel Bill Stanner, Commanding Officer of the 2/1 Northern Australia Observer Unit (the Nackeroos ).
• "The Nackeroos" Australia under attack 1942-43 at the Australian War Memorial
• Literature by and about William Edward Hanley Stanner in the catalog of the Australian National Library