Baldwin Spencer

Biographic Data

ID3754196
NAMEBaldwin Spencer
GIVEN NAMESBaldwin
FAMILY NAMESpencer
SIGNATURESPENCER B
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS125
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1896
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX2

  • Across Australia: Volume 1

    Open AccessBaldwin Spencer, F J GillenBOOKAcross Australia2010

    Eminent biologist Sir Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929) was born in Lancashire but moved to Australia to take up the chair in biology at the University of Melbourne in 1887. As a member of the 1894 Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia, Spencer made the acquaintance of F. J. Gillen, an advocate of Aboriginal rights, with whom he later formed a working partnership. Spencer and Gillen returned to Alice Springs in Central Australia in 1896–1897,…

  • Across Australia: Volume 2

    Open AccessBaldwin Spencer, F J GillenBOOKAcross Australia2010

    Eminent biologist Sir Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929) was born in Lancashire but moved to Australia to take up the chair in biology at the University of Melbourne in 1887. As a member of the 1894 Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia, Spencer made the acquaintance of F. J. Gillen, an advocate of Aboriginal rights, with whom he later formed a working partnership. Spencer and Gillen returned to Alice Springs in Central Australia in 1896–1897,…

  • Initiation Ceremonies

    Open AccessBaldwin SpencerCHAPTERNative Tribes of the Northern…2010

    So far as initiation is concerned these northern tribes may be divided into three main groups that are clearly marked off from one another by the presence or absence of certain characteristic ceremonies. In all tribes hitherto described by us, in Central and Northern Central Australia, the two ceremonies of circumcision and subincision are carried out, but as the northern coast is approached we meet with tribes which first of all drop, if they ha…

  • Native Tribes of Central Australia

    Open AccessBaldwin Spencer, F J GillenBOOKNative Tribes of Central Australia2010Cited by: 114

    Sir Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929) was a British/Australian biologist and anthropologist, best known for his work amongst the indigenous Aboriginal tribes of Australia. After graduating from Exeter College, Oxford in 1884, Spencer was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, before being appointed the Professor of Biology at the University of Melbourne. In 1896 Spencer joined his friend and co-author Francis James Gillen (1855–1912) to undertake…

  • Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    Open AccessBaldwin SpencerBOOKNative Tribes of the Northern…2010

    Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929) was a British Australian biologist and anthropologist, best known for his work amongst the indigenous Aboriginal tribes of Australia. After graduating from Exeter College, Oxford in 1884 Spencer was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford in 1886 before being appointed the Professor of Biology at the University of Melbourne. In 1911 Spencer was appointed Special Commissioner for Aborigines and undertook …

  • Spencer's Last Journey: Being the Journal of an Expedition to Tierra del Fuego by the Late Sir Baldwin Spencer

    R R Marett, T K Penniman et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1931Cited by: 1

  • Wanderings in Wild Australia

    Baldwin SpencerARTICLEGeographical Journal1929Cited by: 1

  • The Arunta: A Study of a Stone Age People

    Dayo Omotoso, Baldwin Spencer et al.REVIEWGeographical Journal1928Cited by: 1

  • Australian Aborigines

    Baldwin SpencerARTICLEGeographical Journal1915

  • Australian Ethnology

    Baldwin Spencer, F J GillenARTICLEGeographical Journal1904

  • The Australian Ethnological Expedition; Part of a Letter Received from Professor Baldwin Spencer

    Baldwin SpencerARTICLEMan1901

  • The Native Tribes of Central Australia

    W W Newell, Baldwin Spencer et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1900Cited by: 1

  • The Native Tribes of Central Australia

    Baldwin Spencer, Francis James GillenARTICLENotes and Queries1899

    The Native Tribes of Central Australia Get access Notes and Queries, Volume s9-III, Issue 70, 29 April 1899, Pages 338–339, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s9-III.70.338c Published: 29 April 1899

  • Some Remarks on Totemism as Applied to Australian Tribes

    Baldwin Spencer, F J GillenARTICLEThe Journal of the Anthropological…1899Cited by: 7

  • The Native Tribes of Central Australia

    Open AccessMargaret King Boyes, Baldwin Spencer et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of the Anthropological…1899

    Preface 1. Introduction 2. The social organisation of the tribes 3. Certain ceremonies concerned with marriage, together with a discussion regarding the same 4. The totems 5. The churinga or bull roarers of the Arunta and other tribes 6. Intichiuma ceremonies 7. Initiation ceremonies 8. Initiation ceremonies (continued) 9. Initiation ceremonies (continued) 10. Traditions dealing with the origin of the Alcheringa ancestors of the Arunta tribe and …

  • Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia /

    Open AccessHorn Scientific Expedition, William Austin Horn et al.BOOK1896

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