Ursula McConnel
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1888 – 1957
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Who was Ursula McConnel?
Ursula Hope McConnel 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
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- Born
- Oct 27, 1888
Toogoolawah - Religion
- Anglicanism
- Ethnicity
- Australians
- Nationality
- Australia
- Education
- University of Sydney
- Lived in
- Eagle Heights, Queensland
- Died
- Nov 6, 1957
Kelvin Grove
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on July 23, 2013
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