Ronald Berndt
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Australian anthropologist
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Ronald Berndt's Degrees
- Masters Anthropology University of Melbourne
- PhD Anthropology Australian National University
Why Is Ronald Berndt Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ronald Murray Berndt was an Australian social anthropologist who, in 1963, became the inaugural professor of anthropology at the University of Western Australia. He and his wife Catherine Berndt maintained a close professional partnership for five decades, working among Aboriginal Australians at Ooldea , Northern Territory cattle stations , Balgo and natives of New Guinea .
Ronald Berndt's Published Works
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Published Works
- The World of the First Australians (1966) (378)
- World of the First Australians: Aboriginal Traditional Life - Past and Present, The (1965) (151)
- Transitions to School: Perceptions, Expectations, Experiences (1988) (130)
- THE CONCEPT OF ‘THE TRIBE’ IN THE WESTERN DESERT OF AUSTRALIA.1 (1959) (111)
- A world that was : the Yaraldi of the Murray River and the lakes, South Australia (1993) (93)
- The Speaking Land: Myth and Story in Aboriginal Australia (1994) (93)
- On Ethnic Unit Classification [and Comments and Reply] (1964) (88)
- Arnhem Land : its history and its people (1954) (85)
- Excess and Restraint: Social Control Among a New Guinea Mountain People. (1963) (84)
- A PRELIMINARY REPORT OF FIELD WORK IN THE OOLDEA REGION, WESTERN SOUTH AUSTRALIA (1943) (72)
- A Contemporary Overview (1988) (61)
- Australian Aboriginal Religion (1974) (59)
- End of an era: Aboriginal labour in the Northern Territory (1987) (58)
- Aborigines of the West : their past and their present (1979) (56)
- Ceremonial Exchange in Western Arnhem Land (1951) (50)
- Sexual behavior in western Arnhem land (1951) (49)
- An adjustment movement in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory of Australia (1963) (47)
- Love songs of Arnhem Land (1978) (42)
- Kunapipi : a study of an Australian aboriginal religious cult (1951) (41)
- A World That Was: The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia@@@A Place for Strangers: Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being (1996) (38)
- The world of the first Australians : an introduction to the traditional life of the Australian aborigines (1964) (37)
- Aborigines and change : Australia in the '70s (1977) (37)
- WURADJERI MAGIC AND “CLEVER MEN” (1947) (37)
- Man, land & myth in north Australia : the Gunwinggu people (1970) (33)
- The first Australians (1974) (30)
- CARD GAMES AMONG ABORIGINES OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY (1947) (29)
- A CURLEW AND OWL LEGEND FROM THE NARUNGA TRIBE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA (1940) (28)
- A CARGO MOVEMENT IN THE EASTERN CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA (1952) (28)
- REACTION TO CONTACT IN THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA (1954) (28)
- Australian Aboriginal art (1966) (25)
- Aboriginal sites, rights, and resource development (1982) (25)
- Social Anthropology and Australian Aboriginal Studies: A Contemporary Overview (1990) (21)
- The Australian Aboriginal heritage : an Introduction through the arts (1973) (21)
- Aboriginal Australian art: A visual perspective (1982) (18)
- Aboriginal man in Australia : essays in honour of emeritus professor A.P. Elkin (1966) (18)
- Political structure in the eastern central highlands of New Guinea (1969) (18)
- Australian aboriginal anthropology : modern studies in the social anthropology of the Australian aborigines (1972) (17)
- The Gove dispute: The question of Australian aboriginal land and the preservation of sacred sites (1964) (17)
- Politics in New Guinea;: Traditional and in the context of change, some anthropological perspectives (1971) (15)
- SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF ARNHEM LAND (1951) (15)
- KAMANO, JATE, USURUFA AND FO:RE KINSHIP OF THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA: A PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT (1954) (15)
- Discovery of Pottery in North-Eastern Arnhem Land (1947) (14)
- SOME ASPECTS OF JARALDE CULTURE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA (1940) (14)
- The aboriginal Australians: The first pioneers (1983) (14)
- AN OENPELLI MONOLOGUE : CULTURE‐CONTACT (1951) (14)
- SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART (1958) (14)
- BADU, ISLANDS OF THE SPIRITS (1948) (13)
- A ‘WONGURI‐’MANDƷIKAI SONG CYCLE OF THE MOON‐BONE (1948) (13)
- The sacred site: the western Arnhem Land example (1969) (13)
- Art in Arnhem Land (1951) (13)
- Secular figures of northeastern Arnhem Land. (1949) (11)
- Aboriginal man in southwestern Australia (1973) (11)
- Going it alone? : prospects for Aboriginal autonomy : essays in honour of Ronald and Catherine Berndt (1990) (10)
- In Reply to Radcliffe‐Brown on Australian Local Organization (1957) (9)
- TRIBAL MIGRATIONS AND MYTHS CENTRING ON OOLDEA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA (1941) (9)
- SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES (1967) (8)
- INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN CULTURE ON AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES1 (1951) (8)
- SACRED FIGURES OF ANCESTRAL BEINGS OF ARNHEM LAND (1948) (8)
- The Wuradilagu Song Cycle of Northeastern Arnhem Land: Content and Style (1966) (7)
- Aborigines in Australian society (1985) (6)
- Problems of Assimilation in Australia (1964) (6)
- 116. Interdependence and Conflict in the Eastern Central Highlands of New Guinea (1955) (6)
- General editor's note (1963) (6)
- ABORIGINAL SLEEPING CUSTOMS AND DREAMS, OOLDEA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA (1940) (5)
- Magic and Sorcery (1988) (5)
- Three faces of love : traditional Aborigional song-poetry (1976) (5)
- Areas of research in aboriginal Australia which demand urgent attention (1959) (4)
- MAKING FIRE BY PERCUSSION IN AUSTRALIA (1941) (4)
- DEATH, BURIAL, AND ASSOCIATED RITUAL AT OOLDEA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA (1942) (4)
- THE STUDY OF MAN: AN APPRAISAL OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY (1960) (4)
- Practical anthropology in aboriginal Australia: Some personal comments (1983) (4)
- LIFE IN DEATH: A LUNGGA (GIDJA) MYTHIC COROLLARY (1975) (4)
- Looking ahead through the past (1984) (3)
- Looking back into the present: A changing Panorama in Eastern Arnhem Land (1980) (3)
- TWO IN ONE, AND MORE IN TWO (1970) (3)
- Australian Aboriginal Studies (1988) (3)
- The Global Spread of Western Europeanization (1959) (3)
- Native Welfare in Western Australia since the "Warburton Controversy" of 1957 (1959) (3)
- The Barbarians : anthropological view (1971) (3)
- IN THE STEPS OF KURU (1981) (2)
- Thinking about Australian aboriginal welfare : with particular reference to Western Australia : a collection of brief papers (1969) (2)
- 65. A Comment on Dr. Leach's `Trobriand Medusa.' (1958) (2)
- Australian Aboriginal art in the Anthropology Museum of the University of Western Australia (1980) (2)
- Pioneers & settlers: The Aboriginal Australians (1978) (2)
- Australian aborigines: research and welfare. Presidential Address, 1973 (1974) (1)
- The Berndts: A Select Bibliography (1990) (1)
- Paths into the Present (1988) (1)
- The Arts of Life (1988) (1)
- SOME RECENT ARTICLES ON CULTURE‐CONTACT—A REVIEW (1945) (1)
- An Anthropologist Looks at Literature (1957) (1)
- REACTION TO CONTACT IN THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA: ErrataandCorrigenda (1955) (1)
- Relationship with the Land (1988) (1)
- Subincision in a non-subincision area. (1951) (1)
- Politics in New Guinea: Traditional and in the Context of Change: Some Anthropological Perspectives. (1973) (1)
- On Beach's Review ofSexual Behavior in Western Arnhem Land (1954) (1)
- ADOLPHUS PETER ELKIN 1891–1979 (1981) (1)
- Establishing training in applied anthropology (1983) (1)
- Art and Aesthetic Expression (1988) (1)
- Problems of Assimilation in Australia * (1964) (0)
- Dreamtime Justice Rigby; I, the aboriginal Rigby;The embarrassing Australian [Book Review] (1963) (0)
- An Overview: the Past and the Present (1988) (0)
- Australian Aboriginal religion : the four fascicles in one (1974) (0)
- The Aborigines in Time and Space (1988) (0)
- Obituary: Professor Max Gluckman (1975) (0)
- Additional Notes on the Main Chapters (1984) (1988) (0)
- Australian Aboriginal Anthropology.@@@Aboriginal Man and Environment in Australia.@@@Aboriginal Settlements. (1972) (0)
- The changing face of the aboriginal arts 1 (1972) (0)
- A Rejoinder and a Reply to Our Review of Ward Mcnally's Aborigines Artefacts and Anguish (1983) (0)
- The Life Cycle: Marriage to Old Age (1988) (0)
- Foreword to the 1988 Edition (1988) (0)
- Reply to W. Shapiro's response to a review of his book on Social Organization in Aboriginal Australia (1983) (0)
- Social Organization and Structure (1988) (0)
- Social Organization and Structure (Continued) (1988) (0)
- A little history and a point of view: Introductory remarks (1984) (0)
- The native tribes of Western Australia [Book Review] (1986) (0)
- Social Groups and Social Relations (1988) (0)
- Obituary: Phyllis M. Kaberry, 1910–1977 (1977) (0)
- Art and Aesthetic Expression (Continued) (1988) (0)
- New Guinea: The Last Unknown. Gavin Souter (1968) (0)
- Research priorities in Papua-New Guinea: Some social anthropological comments (1970) (0)
- The Life Cycle: Growing Up (1988) (0)
- Book Reviews : A Kuper, The Social Anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown, (ed.), Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1977. Pp. vii-viii, 1-296. £ Stg. 6.95, cloth; £3.50 paper (1980) (0)
- Religious Belief and Practice: Ritual (1988) (0)
- ADOLPHUS PETER ELKIN, 1891–1979 (1979) (0)
- Death and the Afterlife (1988) (0)
- The Basis of Economic Life (1988) (0)
- Law and Politics (1988) (0)
- Foreword to the 1985 Edition (1988) (0)
- Comments on the aboriginal land inquiry, report by P. Seaman, September 1984 (1984) (0)
- Religious Belief and Practice: Totemism and Mythology (1988) (0)
- Aborigines, Artefacts and Anguish [Book Review] (1982) (0)
- The First Australians.@@@Brown Men and Red Sand. (1954) (0)
- Magic as Social Control (1988) (0)
- N. G. Butlin, Our Original Aggression: Aboriginal Populations of Southeastern Australia 1788-1850 (Sydney, George Allen and Unwin, 1983), pp. xii + 186: $12.95 (1986) (0)
- Folklore and History in Arnhem Land@@@Arnhem Land: Its History and Its People (1955) (0)
- OTHER: An Introduction to Sociology, J. E. Gold Thorpe (1970) (0)
- Book Reviews : Louise Morauta, Beyond the Village: local politics in Madang, Papua New Guinea. London, The Athlone Press, University of London, 1974. Pp. 1-194. Price £ 4.50 Sterling (1977) (0)
- Law and Order (1988) (0)
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