The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist

Media and readers are ready to question notions of history and how it has been presented and interpreted in the past. The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews is about the life and work of the renowned 19th century surveyor turned ethnologist, R.H. Mathews, whose studies of Aboriginal Australia were path-breaking and quite controversial. His childhood in Goulburn meant that he grew up with Aboriginal children as playmates, so when he began his obsession with documenting Aboriginal life, he came to h...