G Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7126-2759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1928 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘He has not been playing the game with us’: Paul Kirchhoff in imperial Britain
The decision by the British Colonial Office to prohibit the German-born anthropologist Paul Kirchhoff from entering any empire African colony, including South Africa, created a diplomatic problem as well a nearly derailing a major research project, ‘the Changing African’, developed by the German linguist Diedrich Westermann, London School of Economics (LSE) anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski and JR Oldham, secretary of the London-based Internati…
Life Will Be Very Different after the War: Administrative, Political and Academic Tensions in the Development of Papua New Guinea after the Second World War
At the end of the Pacific War (1941-1945) in Papua and New Guinea and the restoration of Australian rule, the Australian Labor government anticipated a self-governing colony. It was not an act of decolonisation per se. Rather it was a step toward a self-governing colony under the umbrella of Australia. Independence was for the future. The change of government at the end of 1949, and the replacement of the administrator J.K. Murray in 1952 by Dona…
Chicanery: Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960
Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. It is also a time when harsh assessments can be made about colleagues’ intellectual abilities and their capacity as a scholar and fieldworker. The assessors’ reports were often disturbingly personal, laying bare their likes and dislikes that could determine…
Prologue
As a professional field of inquiry, social anthropology emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century, though it had many progenitors.It evolved from a field of sister disciplines and developed complex relationships with these.A racially informed psychology and colonial-experienced Christian mission are two to mention.Some of our cohort had an interest in or studied psychology, such as Ralph Piddington, who was awarded a Master of Arts in ant…
In my file, I am two different people’: Max Gluckman and A.L. Epstein, the Australian National University, and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, 1958–60
Security services in the Cold War introduced an ethos of secrecy, where state persecution of academics without due process could be justified by the imputation of communism. Australian security services viewed the work of social anthropologists as providing a perfect cover for subversive activities among undeveloped peoples. This applied especially to anthropologists seeking to conduct research in the Australian colony of Papua New Guinea. Austra…
‘Anthropology and Sociology Were of No Value … in War Time’: Ronald and Catherine Berndt and War-Time Security, 1939–1945
On 3 September 1939, Australia followed the United Kingdom in declaring war on Germany. Soon afterwards a number of German nationals including Australians of German descent were placed in internment camps. For those German enemy aliens and Australians of German heritage not interned, suspicion was never far from the surface. In the case of the anthropologist Ronald Murray Berndt, what initially put him under suspicion was not his political affili…
We Haven’t Abandoned the Project’: The Founding of The Journal of Pacific History
Leach would be first rate – if you could get him’ 1: Edmund Leach and the Australian National University, 1956
In June 1956, after an extensive search, Edmund Leach was offered the Chair of Anthropology at the Australian National University. Leach was brought to Canberra and wooed but he declined to accept the appointment. Contemporaries were never quite sure why Leach turned down his first offer of a chair. Recourse to institutional and personal papers reveals that family impediments rather than professional misgivings ensured that Leach would not take u…
‘You are … my anthropological children’: AP Elkin, Ronald Berndt and Catherine Berndt, 1940–1956
Anthropology in the past was so very different, in terms of both numbers and regional spread, to what it is today, and the opportunities for concentration on a few specific persons, rather than the diffusion among many, were correspondingly greater
Aborigines, Elkin and the Guided Projectiles Project
The Chifley Labor government announced on
In view of the obvious animus’. The discrediting of Ralph Piddington
A study describing Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, AO Neville's successful attempt to discredit Ralph Piddington by scrutinising his personal behaviour, to avert the veracity of the allegations made by Piddington, and the inadequacies of Neville's department. By this strategy the seriousness of the allegations made by Piddington about the ill-treatment and conditions of Aborigines at La Grange Bay in Northwest Western Australi…
Australian Aboriginal anthropology at the crossroads: Finding a successor to A. P. Elkin, 1955
A. P. Elkin, who had dominated Australian anthropology since his appointment to the Chair of Anthropology at the University of Sydney in 1934, was concerned that coinciding with his retirement in 1955 was the possibility of the demise of Aboriginal anthropology as the core of the Sydney department. He thus attempted to influence the University authorities in their selection of his chosen successor, Ronald Murray Berndt. Such a selection would ens…
Dislocating the self: Anthropological field work in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1934-1936
in the only teaching department of anthropology in an Australian university, had control not only over where research was conducted but also over who could conduct that research.Despite the discipline's youth -the chair had been founded in 1925 -a structure and unwritten rules governing the behaviour of anthropologists in the field had already been developed, as well as a methodological approach to field work, driven by an interest in 'traditiona…
The Sydney school] seem[s] to view the Aborigines as forever unchanging: Southeastern Australia and Australian anthropology
From 1926 onward research into the culture of the Aborigines and into problems of con tact was undertaken systematically.The aim was primarily to learn all we could before it was too late, because all this was changing rapidly through contact with settlers, administrations and missions
(This Often) Sympathetic Collaboration: Anthropologists, Academic Freedom and Government, 1927-1952
Forgetting Aborigines
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The "ANRC has Withdrawn its Offer": Paul Kirchhoff, Academic Freedom and the Australian Academic Establishment
The main focus of examinations of intellectual suppression and censorship of scholars and academics in Australia has been on the post-1945 period, particularly the Cold War. The interwar years have, in comparison, received little attention, resulting in a lack of historical understanding of the development of censorious structures and traditions in Australia. In this paper I discuss the exclusion of Paul Kirchhoff, a German anthropologist, a memb…
Stanner's War: W.E.H. Stanner, the Pacific War, and its Aftermath∗
The Pacific War and its aftermath were a turning point in William Edward Hanley Stanner's career. Until then, he had struggled to establish himself as a scholar and seemed destined to stay, like many other Australian scholars, within the orbit of British academia and its colonial empire. Almost immediately after war had been declared, Stanner returned to Australia, working in various capacities and, in May 1942, commanding the North Australia Obs…
The army requires anthropologists: Australian anthropologists at war, 1939-1946
World War II had unexpected consequences for the development of anthropology in Australia; it led to a breaking of the hegemonic control exercised by the Sydney department by the creation of, first, the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA) and second, the establishment of the Australian National University (ANU). Both institutions affected the way anthropology was practised and theorised, as well as removing the training of colonia…
Australian anthropologists and World War II
The exceptions are Kenneth Eyre Read and H. Ian Hogbin with particular reference to New Guinea (see Read 1947, Hogbin 1951). Work undertaken by Ronald and Catherine Berndt examining army compounds and the condition of Aboriginal labour was not published until 1987. A.R. Radcliffe‐Brown attended the BAAS meeting and remained in Australia for the duration of World War I; he was employed as a teacher at Sydney Church of England Grammar School (1915–…
There are Many Difficult Problems
2003). There are Many Difficult Problems. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 313-330
Howard's Agenda
The Resurgence of Racism: Howard, Hanson and the Race Debate
Being Honest to my Science’: Reo Fortune and J.H.P. Murray, 1927‐30 1
Reo Fortune worked on Tewara Island in the D'Entrecasteaux group in the Australian Territory of Papua from November 1927 to May 1928. His relations with the Lieutenant‐Governor J.H.P. Murray and the government anthropologist F.E. Williams were problematic. In this paper I argue that Fortune's actions, along with increasing tension between Murray and Radcliffe‐Brown, were sufficient for a change in Murray's attitude towards continued independent a…
Mr Neville did all in [his] power to assist me’: A. P. Elkin, A. O. Neville and Anthropological Research in Northwest Western Australia, 1927–1928
From the commencement of his field research A. P. Elkin sought to bring a practical application to his work on Aborigines. He positioned anthropology as an enabling science which had the capacity to reduce conflict, violence and misunderstanding on the frontier. He stated that the ‘object of his mission [field work]’ was both ‘academic and practical’. He declared that the knowledge gained through anthropological field research would serve not onl…
Dislocating the self: Anthropological field work in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1934-1936
in the only teaching department of anthropology in an Australian university, had control not only over where research was conducted but also over who could conduct that research.Despite the discipline's youth -the chair had been founded in 1925 -a structure and unwritten rules governing the behaviour of anthropologists in the field had already been developed, as well as a methodological approach to field work, driven by an interest in 'traditiona…
Forgetting Aborigines
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Sydney school] seem[s] to view the Aborigines as forever unchanging: Southeastern Australia and Australian anthropology
From 1926 onward research into the culture of the Aborigines and into problems of con tact was undertaken systematically.The aim was primarily to learn all we could before it was too late, because all this was changing rapidly through contact with settlers, administrations and missions
There are Many Difficult Problems
2003). There are Many Difficult Problems. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 313-330
The natives are happy’: A.P. Elkin, A.O. Neville and anthropological research in Northwest Western Australia
Australian Aboriginal anthropology at the crossroads: Finding a successor to A. P. Elkin, 1955
A. P. Elkin, who had dominated Australian anthropology since his appointment to the Chair of Anthropology at the University of Sydney in 1934, was concerned that coinciding with his retirement in 1955 was the possibility of the demise of Aboriginal anthropology as the core of the Sydney department. He thus attempted to influence the University authorities in their selection of his chosen successor, Ronald Murray Berndt. Such a selection would ens…
The army requires anthropologists: Australian anthropologists at war, 1939-1946
World War II had unexpected consequences for the development of anthropology in Australia; it led to a breaking of the hegemonic control exercised by the Sydney department by the creation of, first, the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA) and second, the establishment of the Australian National University (ANU). Both institutions affected the way anthropology was practised and theorised, as well as removing the training of colonia…
Being Honest to my Science’: Reo Fortune and J.H.P. Murray, 1927‐30 1
Reo Fortune worked on Tewara Island in the D'Entrecasteaux group in the Australian Territory of Papua from November 1927 to May 1928. His relations with the Lieutenant‐Governor J.H.P. Murray and the government anthropologist F.E. Williams were problematic. In this paper I argue that Fortune's actions, along with increasing tension between Murray and Radcliffe‐Brown, were sufficient for a change in Murray's attitude towards continued independent a…
Mr Neville did all in [his] power to assist me’: A. P. Elkin, A. O. Neville and Anthropological Research in Northwest Western Australia, 1927–1928
From the commencement of his field research A. P. Elkin sought to bring a practical application to his work on Aborigines. He positioned anthropology as an enabling science which had the capacity to reduce conflict, violence and misunderstanding on the frontier. He stated that the ‘object of his mission [field work]’ was both ‘academic and practical’. He declared that the knowledge gained through anthropological field research would serve not onl…
Stanner's War: W.E.H. Stanner, the Pacific War, and its Aftermath∗
The Pacific War and its aftermath were a turning point in William Edward Hanley Stanner's career. Until then, he had struggled to establish himself as a scholar and seemed destined to stay, like many other Australian scholars, within the orbit of British academia and its colonial empire. Almost immediately after war had been declared, Stanner returned to Australia, working in various capacities and, in May 1942, commanding the North Australia Obs…
Australian anthropologists and World War II
The exceptions are Kenneth Eyre Read and H. Ian Hogbin with particular reference to New Guinea (see Read 1947, Hogbin 1951). Work undertaken by Ronald and Catherine Berndt examining army compounds and the condition of Aboriginal labour was not published until 1987. A.R. Radcliffe‐Brown attended the BAAS meeting and remained in Australia for the duration of World War I; he was employed as a teacher at Sydney Church of England Grammar School (1915–…
Housing Needs of Children
Changes in the Household Resulting from the Industrial Revolution
Journal Article Changes in the Household Resulting from the Industrial Revolution Get access Greta Gray Greta Gray University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 11, Issue 2, December 1932, Pages 242–248, https://doi.org/10.2307/2569781 Published: 01 December 1932
The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: Development and validation of the general measure.
PURPOSE: We developed and validated a brief, yet sensitive, 33-item general cancer quality-of-life (QL) measure for evaluating patients receiving cancer treatment, called the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) scale. METHODS AND RESULTS: The five-phase validation process involved 854 patients with cancer and 15 oncology specialists. The initial pool of 370 overlapping items for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer was generated by open…
“I was not consulted”: A. P. Elkin, Papua New Guinea and the Politics of Anthropology, 1942–1950
‘Piddington's Indiscretion’: 1 Ralph Piddington, The Australian National Research Council and Academic Freedom
The primary aim of this paper is to investigate the question why, particularly in the first half of this century, Australian academics were so supine when it came to public criticism of the treatment, conditions and welfare of Australian Aborigines. Its focus is Ralph Piddington and how he was treated by the Australian academic establishment for his public criticism of the treatment of Aborigines at La Grange Bay, North‐west Australia. It shows h…
The natives are happy’: A.P. Elkin, A.O. Neville and anthropological research in Northwest Western Australia
Mr Neville did all in [his] power to assist me’: A. P. Elkin, A. O. Neville and Anthropological Research in Northwest Western Australia, 1927–1928
From the commencement of his field research A. P. Elkin sought to bring a practical application to his work on Aborigines. He positioned anthropology as an enabling science which had the capacity to reduce conflict, violence and misunderstanding on the frontier. He stated that the ‘object of his mission [field work]’ was both ‘academic and practical’. He declared that the knowledge gained through anthropological field research would serve not onl…
Being Honest to my Science’: Reo Fortune and J.H.P. Murray, 1927‐30 1
Reo Fortune worked on Tewara Island in the D'Entrecasteaux group in the Australian Territory of Papua from November 1927 to May 1928. His relations with the Lieutenant‐Governor J.H.P. Murray and the government anthropologist F.E. Williams were problematic. In this paper I argue that Fortune's actions, along with increasing tension between Murray and Radcliffe‐Brown, were sufficient for a change in Murray's attitude towards continued independent a…
The Resurgence of Racism: Howard, Hanson and the Race Debate
Howard's Agenda
There are Many Difficult Problems
2003). There are Many Difficult Problems. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 313-330
Australian anthropologists and World War II
The exceptions are Kenneth Eyre Read and H. Ian Hogbin with particular reference to New Guinea (see Read 1947, Hogbin 1951). Work undertaken by Ronald and Catherine Berndt examining army compounds and the condition of Aboriginal labour was not published until 1987. A.R. Radcliffe‐Brown attended the BAAS meeting and remained in Australia for the duration of World War I; he was employed as a teacher at Sydney Church of England Grammar School (1915–…
The "ANRC has Withdrawn its Offer": Paul Kirchhoff, Academic Freedom and the Australian Academic Establishment
The main focus of examinations of intellectual suppression and censorship of scholars and academics in Australia has been on the post-1945 period, particularly the Cold War. The interwar years have, in comparison, received little attention, resulting in a lack of historical understanding of the development of censorious structures and traditions in Australia. In this paper I discuss the exclusion of Paul Kirchhoff, a German anthropologist, a memb…
Stanner's War: W.E.H. Stanner, the Pacific War, and its Aftermath∗
The Pacific War and its aftermath were a turning point in William Edward Hanley Stanner's career. Until then, he had struggled to establish himself as a scholar and seemed destined to stay, like many other Australian scholars, within the orbit of British academia and its colonial empire. Almost immediately after war had been declared, Stanner returned to Australia, working in various capacities and, in May 1942, commanding the North Australia Obs…
The army requires anthropologists: Australian anthropologists at war, 1939-1946
World War II had unexpected consequences for the development of anthropology in Australia; it led to a breaking of the hegemonic control exercised by the Sydney department by the creation of, first, the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA) and second, the establishment of the Australian National University (ANU). Both institutions affected the way anthropology was practised and theorised, as well as removing the training of colonia…
(This Often) Sympathetic Collaboration: Anthropologists, Academic Freedom and Government, 1927-1952
Forgetting Aborigines
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
‘You are … my anthropological children’: AP Elkin, Ronald Berndt and Catherine Berndt, 1940–1956
Anthropology in the past was so very different, in terms of both numbers and regional spread, to what it is today, and the opportunities for concentration on a few specific persons, rather than the diffusion among many, were correspondingly greater
Aborigines, Elkin and the Guided Projectiles Project
The Chifley Labor government announced on
In view of the obvious animus’. The discrediting of Ralph Piddington
A study describing Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, AO Neville's successful attempt to discredit Ralph Piddington by scrutinising his personal behaviour, to avert the veracity of the allegations made by Piddington, and the inadequacies of Neville's department. By this strategy the seriousness of the allegations made by Piddington about the ill-treatment and conditions of Aborigines at La Grange Bay in Northwest Western Australi…
Australian Aboriginal anthropology at the crossroads: Finding a successor to A. P. Elkin, 1955
A. P. Elkin, who had dominated Australian anthropology since his appointment to the Chair of Anthropology at the University of Sydney in 1934, was concerned that coinciding with his retirement in 1955 was the possibility of the demise of Aboriginal anthropology as the core of the Sydney department. He thus attempted to influence the University authorities in their selection of his chosen successor, Ronald Murray Berndt. Such a selection would ens…
Dislocating the self: Anthropological field work in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1934-1936
in the only teaching department of anthropology in an Australian university, had control not only over where research was conducted but also over who could conduct that research.Despite the discipline's youth -the chair had been founded in 1925 -a structure and unwritten rules governing the behaviour of anthropologists in the field had already been developed, as well as a methodological approach to field work, driven by an interest in 'traditiona…
The Sydney school] seem[s] to view the Aborigines as forever unchanging: Southeastern Australia and Australian anthropology
From 1926 onward research into the culture of the Aborigines and into problems of con tact was undertaken systematically.The aim was primarily to learn all we could before it was too late, because all this was changing rapidly through contact with settlers, administrations and missions
Leach would be first rate – if you could get him’ 1: Edmund Leach and the Australian National University, 1956
In June 1956, after an extensive search, Edmund Leach was offered the Chair of Anthropology at the Australian National University. Leach was brought to Canberra and wooed but he declined to accept the appointment. Contemporaries were never quite sure why Leach turned down his first offer of a chair. Recourse to institutional and personal papers reveals that family impediments rather than professional misgivings ensured that Leach would not take u…
We Haven’t Abandoned the Project’: The Founding of The Journal of Pacific History
Sociology (24 works) · History (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (12 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (10 works) · Anthropology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (8 works)