Elsie Rosaline Masson

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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.[1][2][3] She published An Untamed Territory: The Northern Territory of Australia in 1915.[4]

She was the daughter of David Orme Masson. She and Malinowski had three daughters, Józefa, Wanda and Helena.[5]: 336 [6]: 138  Their daughter Helena Malinowska Wayne would conduct research and publish several works about the life her father.[7][8]

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  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 2021-09-10
  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 and 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. 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. Retrieved 2021-10-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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