Ursula McConnel
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Australian anthropologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ursula Hope McConnel was a Queensland anthropologist and ethnographer best remembered for her work with, and the records she made of, the Wik Mungkan people of Cape York Peninsula. First trained at University College London, then supervised by Professor Alfred Radcliffe-Brown in the Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, McConnel was one of the first women to be trained in anthropology and then go out to observe Aboriginal Australians in remote areas, systematically documenting, recording, and describing their culture, mythology, beliefs, and way of life.
Ursula McConnel's Published Works
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- SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE TRIBES OF CAPE YORK PENINSULA, NORTH QUEENSLAND (1939) (30)
- THE WIK‐MUNKAN TRIBE OF CAPE YORK PENINSULA (1930) (28)
- THE WIK‐MUNKAN AND ALLIED TRIBES OF CAPE YORK PENINSULA, N.Q. (1934) (23)
- THE WIK‐MUNKAN TRIBE (1930) (20)
- A MOON LEGEND FROM THE BLOOMFIELD RIVER, NORTH QUEENSLAND (1931) (18)
- TOTEMIC HERO-CULTS IN CAPE YORK PENINSULA, NORTH QUEENSLAND (1936) (18)
- MOURNING RITUAL AMONG THE TRIBES OF CAPE YORK PENINSULA (1937) (14)
- JUNIOR MARRIAGE SYSTEMS: COMPARATIVE SURVEY1 (1950) (12)
- TOTEM STONES OF THE KANTYU TRIBE, CAPE YORK PENINSULA, NORTH QUEENSLAND1 (1932) (10)
- THE RAINBOW-SERPENT IN NORTH QUEENSLAND (1930) (9)
- Myths of the Munkan (1958) (7)
- MYTHS OF THE WIKMUNKAN AND WIKNATARA TRIBES1: BONEFISH AND BULLROARER TOTEMS (1935) (7)
- ILLUSTRATION OF THE MYTH OF SHIVERI AND NYUNGGU (1936) (7)
- JUNIOR MARRIAGE SYSTEMS: CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA (1951) (6)
- Myths of the Muŋkan (1957) (1)
- Appendix 1 (1966) (0)
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