A message to anthropologists
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This document contains references to the following people, places, and cultural groups
Document Details
Date
1908 - 1907
Letter From
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Letter To
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Author
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Country
Australia
Colony/State
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Holding Institution
Museums Victoria
Collection Name
Alfred W. Howitt Collection
Registration Number
XM 447
Medium
Article
Region
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Locality
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Summary
Two drafts of this article both complete. Content provides advice from A.W. Howitt to researchers regarding assessments of traditional customs and beliefs. Annotation in the margin of the first version with 'For the Revue des Etudes Ethnographiques et Sociologiques ...'. Dictated to unknown writer by A.W. Howitt that due to contact and declining population numbers, caution required when making assessments of traditional social organisation, customs and beliefs from observations of contemporary practices. This article is well known and it has been recorded that it was dictated by A.W. Howitt on his deathbed.
Physical Description
Draft article, handwritten in ink. Two versions, six sheets each. The first version has annotations in the margin and appendix on last page. The second version includes a number of footnotes and has no corrections indicating a final draft. Condition: fragile; tears from edges of last sheet of 'second' set.
