Philip Jones Philip Jones i(A12222 works by) (a.k.a. Philip Geoffrey Jones)
Born: Established: 1955 ;
Gender: Male
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Philip Jones, graduated in Law in 1978 (University of Adelaide) and in 1980 took a First Class Honours degree in History, specialising in French social history (University of Adelaide). His interest in Aboriginal studies developed from social history research, and he began volunteer work at the South Australian Museum in 1981.

His doctoral thesis (University of Adelaide 1996) concerns Aboriginal ethnographic collecting in Australia and is titled 'A Box of Native Things: Ethnographic Collectors and the South Australian Museum, 1830s - 1930s'. It deals with the history of anthropology and collections made on the frontiers of Aboriginal/European contact. The research underpinning this thesis provoked the narratives and ideas that became the main stories in Ochre and Rust. In 2008, Ochre and Rust was the inaugural winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. It was republished by Wakefield Press in 2018.

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y separately published work icon Australia's Muslim Cameleers Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 2007 Z1507857 2007 single work non-fiction Between 1870 and 1920 as many as 2000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Cameleers is a rich pictorial history of these men, their way of life and the vital role they played in pioneering transport and communication routes across outback Australia's vast expanses. Many of the images and artefacts in this fascinating account are published here for the first time, and the book contains a biographical listing of more than 1200 cameleers.
2009 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Multicultural NSW Award
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