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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2018-09-11 human Helen Cohn updated 2026-02-10 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006122b.htm person McArthur Annie Margaret AACR2 Oliver, Margaret 6 December 1919 12 May 2002 Place of Birth Ararat, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America Anthropologist Nutritionist Margaret McArthur was a nutritionist who was a member of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, investigating the quality and quantity of food consumed by the indigenous people. Her fieldwork and observations during this expedition became a landmark study on the food, health and nutrition of the Aborigines of Arnhem Land, in the process contributing significantly to accepted views on women's vital role in Aboriginal diet and social economy. McArthur had earlier participated in the Commonwealth Department of Health Nutrition Expedition to New Guinea in 1947, work which she continued into the 1950s and which formed the basis of her doctoral thesis. She also conducted research in Malaysia for the WHO and was nutrition consultant in Indonesia and Africa for the FAO. Having completed postgraduate training in anthropology McArthur was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney in 1965, becoming the first woman to hold a tenured position in anthropology in Australia. 1941 1941 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne 1942 1942 Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne 1943 1945 Career position - Research Officer, CSIR Division of Industrial Chemistry 1946 1946 Education - Postgraduate Diploma in Nutrition, Institute of Anatomy, Canberra 1947 1947 Career position - Member of the Commonwealth Department of Health Nutrition Expedition to New Guinea 1948 1949 Career position - Nutritionist, Australian-American Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land 1952 1952 Education - Post-graduate Diploma in Social Anthropology, University of London 1953 1955 Award - Walter Mersh Strong Research Fellowship, University of Sydney 1955 1956 Award - Emslie Horniman Studentship, Royal Anthropological Society, London 1958 1960 Career position - Social Anthropology Consultant in Malaya for the World Health Organisation (WHO) 1961 1961 Career position - Nutrition Consultant in Indonesia for the FAO 1962 1962 Career position - Research Officer, Department of Economics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University 1962 1962 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Australian National University 1963 1963 Career position - Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Manchester 1964 1964 Career position - Nutrition Consultant in Africa for the FAO 1965 1970 Career position - Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney 1973 1974 Career position - Senior Fellow, Food Institute of the East-West Centre, Hawaii 1975 1976 Career position - Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney Mountford, Charles Pearcy (1890 - 1976) Deignan, Herbert Girton (1906 - 1968) Hodges, Kelvin Billington, Brian Price (1923 - 2004) The University of Sydney (1850 - )

Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology 1975 - 1976

 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (1948)

Biochemist and nutritionist

 'McArthur, Annie Margaret (Margaret)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology McArthur, Annie Margaret (Margaret) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Nutrition and health (1948) of Aborigines in settlements in Arnhem Land, northern Australia McArthur, M., Billington, B. P. and Hodges, K. J. Nutrition and health (1948) of Aborigines in settlements in Arnhem Land, northern Australia 2000 Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition 9 3 164-213 Book Section: Report of the Nutrition Unit McArthur, Margaret Report of the Nutrition Unit Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press 1960 Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, vol. 2: anthropology and nutrition C. P. Mountford 1-13 Book Section: The food quest and the time factor in Aboriginal economic life McCarthy, Frederick D. and McArthur, Margaret The food quest and the time factor in Aboriginal economic life Carlton, Vic, Melbourne University Press 1960 Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, vol. 2: anthropology and nutrition C. P. Mountford 145-94 Book Section: Food consumption and dietary levels of the group of Aborigines living on naturally occurring foods in Mountford, C. P. ed McArthur, Margaret Food consumption and dietary levels of the group of Aborigines living on naturally occurring foods in Mountford, C. P. ed Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press 1960 Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, vol. 2: anthropology and nutrition C. P. Mountford 90-135 Book Section: Food consumption and dietary levels of the Aborigines living at the settlements McArthur, Margaret Food consumption and dietary levels of the Aborigines living at the settlements Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press 1960 Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, 2: anthropology and nutrition C. P. Mountford 14-26 Journal Article: Nutrition Studies (1948) of Nomadic Aborigines in Arnhem Land, Northern Australia McArthur, M.; Mccarthy, F.D.; and Specht, R.L. Nutrition Studies (1948) of Nomadic Aborigines in Arnhem Land, Northern Australia 2000 Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 9 3 215-223 Journal Article: Food, feeding and consumption (of the cook, the wife and the nutritionist): the politics of gender and class in a 1948 Australian expedition Harris, Amanda Food, feeding and consumption (of the cook, the wife and the nutritionist): the politics of gender and class in a 1948 Australian expedition 2013 History and anthropology 24 3 363-79 Journal Article: Chaperoned into Arnhem Land: Margaret McArthur and the politics of nutrition and fieldwork in 1948 Harris, Amanda Chaperoned into Arnhem Land: Margaret McArthur and the politics of nutrition and fieldwork in 1948 2014 Lilith: a feminist history journal 20 62-75 Book: Clever men: how worlds collided on the scientific expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948 Thomas, Martin Clever men: how worlds collided on the scientific expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948 Crows Nest, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin 2025 Journal Article: Obituary: Annie Margaret McArthur, 1919 - 2002 13(2):230-1 Lepervanche, Marie de Obituary: Annie Margaret McArthur, 1919 - 2002 13(2):230-1 2002 Australian journal of anthropology 13 2 230-1 Journal Article: Obituary: Margaret McArthur Oliver 1919 - 2002 Specht, Ray L, Obituary: Margaret McArthur Oliver 1919 - 2002 2003 Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 12 2 127-8 Journal Article: Margaret McArthur Oliver Specht, Ray L. Margaret McArthur Oliver 2002 Australian Aboriginal Studies 2002 2 122-4