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Ursula Hope McConnel (1888–1957) was a Queensland anthropologist and ethnographer best remembered for her work with, and the records she made of the Wik Mungkan people of Cape York Peninsula. First trained at University College London, then supervised by Professor Alfred Radcliffe-Brown in the Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, McConnel was one of the first woman to be trained in anthropology and then go out to observe Aboriginal Australians in remote areas, systematically documenting, recording, and describing their culture, mythology, beliefs, and way of life〔〔Sutton, Peter (2008)(Ursula McConnel as a public intellectual, Lecture at McCleay Museum, 15 June 2008 ) Accessed 8 June 2009.〕〔(Perusco, Anne O'Gorman "McConnel, Ursula Hope (1888 - 1957)" ) Accessed 8 June 2009〕 ==Early life == Born on a grazing property called "Cressbrook" (near Toogoolawah, Queensland), Ursula McConnel was the eighth child (fifth daughter) of grazier James Henry McConnel and his wife, Mary Elizabeth McConnel (née Kent).〔 Raised on the Cressbrook property in what has been described as an "austere" and "repressed" family environment, she was:〔Rothwell, Nicolas (2009) ("Enigma Variations" ) Article in the Australian, 15 August 2009. Accessed 17 August 2009〕 :"Striking in looks, brilliant in intellectual gifts, she passed through Brisbane High School for Girls and New England Girls' School at Armidale, garlanded with prizes, before taking first-class honours in philosophy at the University of Queensland Ursula McConnell has been described as a brave, free-thinking, open questing woman with sometimes strong emotions, growing up at a time when the first wave of feminism n Australia was coming of age: " .. a perfect test case for the various ideas of self-creation .." 〔 who also, during troubled times studying, came under the shaping influence of her brother-in-law and psychologist Elton Mayo:〔 :"She was a student of herself () believed the human mind could not only be probed and subjected to intensive study through its social context but that its individual workings could be analysed and known in depth" She was once engaged, never married, and being financially secure in her investments in wool bonds, devoted her life to her anthropological research endeavours in Western Cape York Peninsula, driven by a strong sense of duty and justice to the people with whom she had worked.〔 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「Ursula McConnel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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