P006819 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2020-02-25 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006819b.htm corporateBody Board of Anthropological Research AACR2 December 1926 1974 Start Place Adelaide, South Australia, Australia The Board of Anthropological Research was established in 1926 by the University of Adelaide at the instigation of John B. Cleland, T. Draper Campbell and Frederic Wood Jones. Its purpose was to mount annual expeditions into Central Australia to conduct systematic physical anthropological studies of the Aboriginal people. For nearly 50 years multidisciplinary teams from the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum recorded evidence of anthropological, sociological and cultural data including linguistics, kinship, relationship to the land and spirituality. The Museum also contributed materials and equipment in support of the expeditions. Over 120 publications resulted from these studies, many of which stressed the conjunction between Aborigines and their environment. Leading South Australian scientists participated in the work of the Board as Board Members and as participants in expeditions. The records of the Board and related collections are held by the South Australian Museum, the collection being included on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register in 2015. In 1974 the Board's name was changed to the Board of Aboriginal Studies. Hale, Herbert Mathew (1895 - 1963)

Secretary 1928 - 1956; participated in six expeditions 1929 - 1937

 Johnston, Thomas Harvey (1881 - 1951)

Johnston participated in eight expeditions 1930 - 1939

 Tindale, Norman Barnett (1900 - 1993)

Tindale participated in nine expeditions 1928 - 1935

 Strehlow, Theodor George Henry (1908 - 1978)

Strehlow participated in the Board's 1932 expedition

 Fry, Henry Kenneth (1886 - 1959)

Fry participated in seven Board expeditions 1929 - 1937

 Robertson, Thorburn Brailsford (1884 - 1930)

Inaugural Member 1926

 Cleland, John Burton (1878 - 1971)

Inaugural Member, and Chairman of the Board for 30 years; participated in over 10 of the Board's expeditions

 Waite, Edgar Ravenswood (1866 - 1928)

Foundation Board Member 1926 - 1928

 Pulleine, Robert Henry (1869 - 1935)

Foundation Member 1926

 Jones, Frederic Wood (1879 - 1954)

Foundation Member 1926 - 1927

 Campbell, Thomas Draper (1893 - 1967)

Inaugural Member 1926; Chairman 1967

 South Australian Museum (1940 - )

Staff of the Museum participated in the Board's activities; records and associated collections of the Board are in the Museum

 The University of Adelaide (1874 - 2026) 'Board of Anthropological Research', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Board of Anthropological Research Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: South Australian anthropological history: the Board for Anthropological Research and its early expeditions Jones, P. G. South Australian anthropological history: the Board for Anthropological Research and its early expeditions 1987 Records of the South Australian Museum 20 71-92