Alan Rumsey Alan Rumsey i(A125360 works by)
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1975
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'Now an Australian citizen, Alan Rumsey first came to Australia in 1975 as a University of Chicago PhD student to study language and its relation to other aspects of social life among the Mgarinyin people in the Kimberley district of Western Australia. During 1978-95 he lectured in the Anthropology Department at the University of Sydney. While continuing his work with Aboriginal people in the Kimberleys and the Northern Territory, since 1981 Rumsey has also carried out research in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, on language and politics, verbal art, and child language socialization. Since 1996 he has been a Fellow/Senior Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. He headed a major, ARC funded comparative project on genres of sung narrative in the New Guinea Highlands. (Source: The Australian Academy of the Humanities website )

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