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Elsie Rosaline Masson (1890–1935) was an Australian photographer, writer and traveller, best known as the wife of Polish-British anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski. She published An Untamed Territory: The Northern Territory of Australia in 1915. She was the daughter of David Orme Masson.
30 de dic. de 2018 · One of the ‘first white women’ to travel in the Northern Territory, Elsie Masson’s attitudes to the Aboriginal people she met expressed the contradictions of racial thought at this time.
8 de jun. de 2021 · This chapter aims to give an overview of the works by Elsie Masson (1890–1935), including her book, newspapers articles, reports, and letters. It draws on bibliographical and biographical sources, and refers to postmodern and feminist theories on anthropological writing.
8 de jun. de 2021 · This chapter introduces the collection by discussing how the figure of Elsie Masson, Bronislaw Malinowski’s first wife, inspired the editors to reconsider gender as it variously connects to the practice and product of ethnographic writing.
They start with a retrospective diary letter from Elsie Masson to Bronislaw Malinowski and detail their first meeting and eventual falling in love. Malinowski describes his third, and final, time of fieldwork in New Guinea, in the Trobriand Islands, 1917-1918.
Masson and Bronislaw Malinowski, who referred to each other as “Elsie” and “Bronio” (Bronislaw’s nickname), met in Melbourne in 1916, after he had come back from his first fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands.
This chapter aims to give an overview of the works by Elsie Masson (1890–1935), including her book, newspapers articles, reports, and letters. It draws on bibliographical and biographical ...
