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In February 1948, a team of Australian and American researchers and support staff came together in northern Australia to begin, what was then, one of the largest scientific expeditions ever to have taken place in this country—the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (also known as the Arnhem Land Expedition). Today it remains one of the most significant, most ambitious and least understood expeditions ever mounted.〔May, Sally K. in press 2009. Collecting Indigenous Cultures: myth, politics and collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition. California: Altamira〕 Seventeen men and women journeyed across the remote region known as Arnhem Land in northern Australia for nine months. From varying disciplinary perspectives, and under the guidance of expedition leader Charles Mountford, they investigated the Indigenous populations and the environment of Arnhem Land. In addition to an ethnographer, archaeologist, photographer, and filmmaker, the expedition included a botanist, a mammalogist, an ichthyologist, an ornithologist, and a team of medical and nutritional scientists. Their first base camp was Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Three months later they moved to Yirrkala on the Gove Peninsula and three months following that to Oenpelli (now Gunbalanya) in west Arnhem Land.〔May, Sally K. in press 2009. Collecting Indigenous Cultures: myth, politics and collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition. California: Altamira.〕 The journey involved the collaboration of different sponsors and partners (among them the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, and various agencies of the Commonwealth of Australia). In the wake of the expedition came volumes of scientific publications, kilometres of film, thousands of photographs, tens of thousands of scientific specimens, and a vast array of artefacts and paintings from across Arnhem Land. The legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition is vast, complex, and, at times, contentious.〔 ==Expedition Members== * Charles Pearcy Mountford - leader, ethnographer and film-maker, Honorary Associate Curator in Ethnology, South Australian Museum, Adelaide * Frank M Setzler - Deputy Leader and Archaeologist, Head Curator, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,Washington * Herbert G Deignan - Ornithologist, Associate Curator of Birds, Smithsonian Institution, Washington * David H Johnson - Mammalogist, Curator of Mammals, Smithsonian Institution, Washington * Robert R Miller - Ichthyologist, Associate Curator of Fishes, Smithsonian Institution, Washington * Raymond L Specht - Botanist, Lecturer, Department of Botany, University of Adelaide * Frederick D McCarthy - Anthropologist, Department of Anthropology, Australian Museum, Sydney * Harrison Howell Walker - Photographer and Staff Writer, National Geographic Society, Washington * Bessie I Mountford - Honorary Secretary * Brian Billington - Medical Officer, Institute of Anatomy, Canberra * Margaret McArthur - Nutritionist, Institute of Anatomy, Canberra * Kelvin Hodges - Biochemist, Institute of Anatomy, Canberra * William E Harney - Guide and Liaison Officer * Peter Bassett-Smith - Cine-Photographer * Keith Cordon - Transport Officer * John E Bray - Cook and Honorary Entomologist * Reginald Hollow - Cook (2 months) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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