Person

Warner, William Lloyd (1898 - 1970)

Born
25 October 1898
Colton, California, United States of America
Died
23 May 1970
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Occupation
Anthropologist

Summary

William Warner worked in north-east Arnhem Land during 1927-1929, based at Milingimbi Methodist Mission. He became celebrated for his exposition of the system of kinship and marriage among the various clans of his so-called Murngin people. His findings stimulated the 'Murngin controversy', a voluminous dialogue to which distinguished anthropologists still contribute.

Details

Chronology

1925
Education - Educated University of California, Berkeley (AB)
1925 - 1926
Career position - Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Sydney
1927 - 1929
Award - Australian National Research Council Fellowship
1929 - 1935
Career position - Lecturer in Anthropology, Sociology and Social Ethics at Harvard University, USA
1935 - 1941
Career position - Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, USA
1941 - 1959
Career position - Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago
1946
Career position - Founded Social Research Inc. - a motivational research firm
1959 -
Career position - Professor of Social Research at Michigan State University, USA

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Hamby, Louise, 'The Reluctant Collector: Lloyd Warner' in The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise, eds (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008), pp. 355-82. Details
  • Mulvaney, D. J., 'Warner, William Lloyd (1898-1970), Anthropologist and Sociologist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 12 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 386-387. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120434b.htm. Details

Resources

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260