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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. She and Malinowski had three daughters ...
- Who Was Elsie?
- The ‘First White Woman’
- Recognising Customary Law
Elsie Masson was born in Melbourne in 1890, the second daughter of Lady Mary and Professor Orme Masson, the chair of chemistry at Melbourne University. Masson senior was a close colleague and friend of Spencer, anthropologist and foundation chair of biology at the university. Masson was clever and well-educated. At 16, she was taken to Europe for a...
Masson’s life entailed daily interaction with a large, multiracial servant workforce, many of whom she photographed. These photos are unusual in that she named the subjects and sometimes recorded details about their lives. However, they are also racially segregated, locating their subjects within their place of work. Her photos include Dhobie, the ...
In 1913 Masson attended the trial of nine Aboriginal men accused of murdering James Campbell, a trepanger (fisher of sea cucumber). Despite her initial “thrill of rage” toward the accused black murderers, Masson’s views changed as she witnessed the men’s unfair treatment within the British legal system, due to the language barrier and cultural misu...
- Jane Lydon
Elsie Rosaline Masson (ur. 1890, zm. 1935) – australijska fotografka, pisarka i podróżniczka, a także żona polskiego antropologa Bronisława Malinowskiego. Napisała „Nieposkromione terytorium: północne terytorium Australii”, wydane w 1915.
8. Juni 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.
- Daniela Salvucci
- daniela.salvucci@unibz.it
- 2021
8. Juni 2021 · Publish with us. Policies and ethics. 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.
- Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn
- 2021
Building on a prologue by two Malinowski grandchildren and an exploration of the role that Bronislaw Malinowski’s first wife, Elsie Masson, played in his literary presentation, the anthropologists collected here problematize writing gender and gendered writing in ethnography, revealing how these twin themes touch the history of the discipline ...
18. Sept. 2018 · Elsie Rosaline Malinowski formerly Masson. Born 29 Sep 1890 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Ancestors. Daughter of David Orme Masson KBE DSc MA and Mary (Struthers) Masson. Sister of James Irvine Orme Masson and Flora Marjorie (Masson) Bassett (Hon) DLit. Wife of Bronisław Kasper Malinowski — married 6 Mar 1919 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
