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Howitt, Alfred William (1830 - 1908)

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Anthropologist and Naturalist

Born: 17 April 1830 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. Died: 7 March 1908 Victoria, Australia.

Alfred William Howitt, a colonial public servant, undertook broad anthropological research into Aboriginal culture and society. Influenced by the evolutionary hypotheses of the era and anthropological theory, he published widely on kinship and marriage.

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Howitt, Godfrey (1800 - 1873)

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Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P000507. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 31 July 2006

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
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