Audrey Richards
British anthropologist whose honours included a CBE for her work in Uganda, election to the British Academy, and the Presidency of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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Charlotte Fox
Irish ethnomusicologist
Mary Hunter Austin
American author and dramatist
Catherine Berndt
The breadth and extent of the Berndts’ research and publications, both as a team and alone, has made a major contribution to anthropological knowledge in Australia.
Diane E Barwick
Influential anthropologist, historian and human rights activist Diane Barwick was a pioneer of ethnohistory in Australia.
Diane Bell
Bell is the author or editor of ten books, including several significant monographs on Australian Aboriginal culture and numerous articles and book chapters dealing with religion, land rights, law reform, art, history and social change.
Erminnie A Smith
American ethnologist who studied the languages and customs of the Iroquois
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.
Margaret McArthur
Annie Margaret MacArthur was the first woman to gain tenure in an Anthropology Department in an Australian university when she was appointed lecturer at the University of Sydney in 1965.
Wendy Lowenstein
Wendy Lowenstein was a pioneer of oral history, giving a voice to the ordinary people who lived history. Lowenstein was also an activist who engaged in a life-long fight for social justice.