Lorimer Fison
Lorimer Fison (* 9. November 1832 in Barningham, Suffolk, England; † 29. Dezember 1907 in Essendon, Melbourne) war ein Missionar der Wesleyan Church, Anthropologe und Journalist. Er verfasste ein Werk über das alte Fidschi im Südpazifik.
Werke
- Tales from Old Fiji, London 1904 Digitalisat
- (mit A. W. Howitt): Kamilaroi and Kurnai: group-marriage and relationship, and marriage by elopement: drawn chiefly from the usage of the Australian aborigines: also The Kurnai tribe, their customs in peace and war. With an introduction by Lewis H. Morgan. Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane: George Robertson, 1880 Digitalisat
Literatur
- W. E. H. Stanner: Fison, Lorimer (1832–1907). In: Douglas Pike (Hrsg.): Australian Dictionary of Biography. Band 4. Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1972, ISBN 0-522-84034-5 (englisch).
- Helen Bethea Gardner; Patrick McConvell: Southern anthropology: a history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai. Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (Palgrave studies in Pacific history)
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