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| Area: Administration / Aboriginal Material Culture (Anthropology) |
| Position: Head of Anthropology and Manager of Sciences |
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South Australian Museum
Science Centre
Morgan Thomas Lane (off Kintore Avenue)
Adelaide, South Australia 5118
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| Phone: +61 8 8207 7467 |
| Mobile: 0401126192 |
| Fax: +61 8 82077222 |
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| Email: philip.clarke@samuseum.sa.gov.au |
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| Biography: |
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Dr Philip Clarke has an academic background in biology, geography and anthropology. After studying at the University of Adelaide, he started working in the Aboriginal ethnographical collections at the South Australian Museum in 1982.
Dr Clarke’s initial research interest were chiefly on Aboriginal use of plants as foods, medicines and materials for making artefacts. This eventually broadened out to Aboriginal perception and use of the land, with a particular focus on the cultural geography of southern Australia. This research produced a number of publications on Aboriginal mythology and contact history.
From the early 1990s, Dr Clarke has mainly worked in Central and Northern Australia, investigating Aboriginal links to land. A major project at the Museum was the repatriation of Aboriginal men’s secret sacred objects back to senior cultural custodians.
During 1998-2000 Dr Clarke’s major task was curating the Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery Project. In late 2003, he published a major book, titled ‘Where the Ancestors Walked’, which provides an overview on Aboriginal culture. This book is available overseas.
From 2000, Dr Clarke has taken several periods of leave from the Museum to do private contract work for corporations required to conduct ethnographic site clearance work before developing new mines. In late 2004, he was successful in obtaining an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, which is investigating Aboriginal, and European frontier conflict sites from the 18th to early 20th century.
Dr Clarke is presently the Head of Anthropology and Manager of Sciences at the Museum. He currently in the final stages of writing a commercial book, which will be an overview of Australian ethnobotany.
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| Major Publications: (Top 5) |
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Clarke, P.A. 2009. Australian Aboriginal ethnometeorology and seasonal calendars. History& Anthropology. Vol20, no.2, pp.79-106.
Clarke, P.A. 2008. ‘Aboriginal Plant Collectors. Botanists and Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century.’ Rosenberg Publishing, Dural Delivery Centre, New South Wales.
Clarke, P.A. 2007. ‘Aboriginal People and Their Plants.’ Rosenberg Publishing, Dural Delivery Centre, New South Wales.
Clarke, P.A. 2007. Indigenous spirit and ghost folklore of ‘settled’ Australia. Folklore. Vol.118, part 2, pp.141-61.
Clarke, P.A. 2003. ‘Where the Ancestors Walked. Australia as an Aboriginal Landscape.’ Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
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