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- Title: In Memorium: L.R. Hiatt (1931-2008) (In Memoriam)
- Author : Oceania
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 180 KB
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News of the death of Les Hiatt in England on 14th February 2008 came to me on an AAS circular message. It was an odd way to hear about the passing of someone who was such a significant figure in my life. Even though I had not seen much of Les in later years, we had exchanged emails and correspondence, particularly over his CD-Rom Project, People of the Rivermouth: the Joborr Texts of Frank Gurrmanamana (2002) and I thought of him often as I struggled with my own late-career development, especially as I distanced myself from anthropological work in Australia and more so as I became one of that doubtful breed, 'management'. Les, like many others, probably did not approve. He maintained a life-long commitment to his 'field' and refused to follow an academic career path which would take him away from it. This meant lost opportunities for him--and others. I often wonder what might have happened had Les taken the Chair of Anthropology at Adelaide University as was once proposed. Still, had he done so he would have felt even more acutely the dissatisfaction shared by so many as Universities changed into hybrid educational corporations whose practices and approaches are determined largely by Government agencies. As it was, Les experienced growing dissatisfaction in the University environment which sometimes led him to take provocative positions in his own workplace and elsewhere. I am not attempting here an assessment of the vast corpus of Les's work. The IATSIS Bibliography displays the remarkable range of Les's academic writings. (1) Some of his other contributions can be located readily by an Internet search, but a number are less accessible. Some papers he gave in public contexts were unpublished, and may perhaps be found in his private materials. In the Festschrift published by the Institute after Les's retirement from the University of Sydney (Scholar and Sceptic: Australian Aboriginal Studies hi Honour of L.R. Hiatt, 1997) some of the directions of his work are taken up, especially by his students, although there is no attempt at coveting the full range of Les's work, where it came from or what it implied. A full analysis of Les's intellectual contributions remains a tantalising, if daunting, challenge.
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