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Elsie Rosaline Masson

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Australian photographer, writer and traveller (1890–1935)

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, Józefa, Wanda and Helena. Their daughter Helena Malinowska Wayne would conduct research and publish several works about the life her parents, including a book The story of a marriage: the letters of Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson.

References

  1. Salvucci, Daniela (2021), Tauber, Elisabeth; Zinn, Dorothy L. (eds.), "Incorporated Genre and Gender: Elsie Masson, Her Writings, and Her Contribution to Malinowski's Career", Gender and Genre in Ethnographic Writing, Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 189–217, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-71726-1_8, ISBN 978-3-030-71726-1, S2CID 236687332, retrieved 10 September 2021
  2. ^ Bauer, Janet (1998). "The Story of a Marriage: The Letters of Bronislaw Mallnowski and Elsie Masson, vol. 1/The Story of a Marriage; The Letters of Bronislaw Mallnowski and Elsie Masson, vol. 2". American Ethnologist. 25 (4): 769–771. doi:10.1525/ae.1998.25.4.769. ISSN 1548-1425.
  3. Wayne, Helena (1985). "Bronislaw Malinowski: The Influence of Various Women on His Life and Works". American Ethnologist. 12 (3): 529–540. doi:10.1525/ae.1985.12.3.02a00090. ISSN 0094-0496. JSTOR 644537.
  4. Serle, Percival (1949). "Masson, David". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
  5. Armon, Witold (1974). "Bronisław Malinowski". Polish Biographical Dictionary (Polski słownik biograficzny) (in Polish). Vol. 19. National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute. pp. 332–336. Archived from the original on 22 June 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  6. Gaillard, Gerald (2004). The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-58580-9.
  7. Young, Michael W. (2018). "Helena Paula Wayne Malinowska (1925–2018)". Anthropology Today. 34 (4): 26–27. doi:10.1111/1467-8322.12451. ISSN 1467-8322. S2CID 149687807.
  8. "Helena Malinowska Wayne (17 May 1925 – 31 March 2018)". MFEA - Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2 July 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  9. Kubica-Heller, Grazyna (1998). "Book Reviews: The story of a marriage: The letters of Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 34 (2): 204–205. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6696(199821)34:2<204::AID-JHBS19>3.0.CO;2-Y.


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