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Exhibition Catalogues

People, Power, Politics: the first generation of anthropologists at the University of Sydney

Featuring images and objects taken by the first wave of anthropologists in the cultures they visited, as well as archival documents, this exhibition explored the work of Australia’s first Department of Anthropology in its early years. Focussing on ten individuals, including famous names such as Raymond Firth, A. P. Elkin, Ian Hogbin, and William Stanner, the exhibition focussed on their early fieldwork when they went into Australian Aboriginal and Pacific Islander communities to investigate and test the latest theories and methods of modern anthropology.

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Rational Order. Carl von Linné 1707-1778

In 2007 the Macleay Museum celebrated Linnaeus's 300th year with the exhibition Rational Order. The exhibition included over five hundred animals from the Macleay collections. We only selected animals that had been described by Linnaeus, and arranged them according to Linnaeus's system.

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Public Lectures

Lecture Series Launch: Indigenous collections – Indigenous museums? ‘Being Collected’ by Dawn Casey.
Macleay Museum, 25 August 2006
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Being Collected Lecture Series: From paradise to prison: Palm Island by Dr Thalia Anthony
Macleay Museum, 27 August 2009
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