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 parents, including a book The story of a marriage: the letters of Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson.[2][7][8][9]

References

  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 10 September 2021
  2. 1 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 & 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. Archived from the original on 2 July 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  9. ↑ Kubica-Heller, Grazyna (1998). "Book Reviews: The story of a marriage: The letters of Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 34 (2): 204–205. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6696(199821)34:2<204::AID-JHBS19>3.0.CO;2-Y.


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