Emeritus Professor Howard Morphy

In his career Howard has moved between Museums and Universities: researching and curating collections, and organising exhibitions. He has conducted extensive fieldwork with the Yolngu people of Northern Australia, and collaborated on many films with Ian Dunlop. He has published widely in the anthropology of art, aesthetics, performance, museum anthropology, Aboriginal social organization, the history of anthropology, visual anthropology and religion. His current digital projects include: 1) the development of a virtual archive of Yolngu collections in order to reconstruct the material record as a whole by bringing together film, photography, archival data and material culture objects. 2) In collaboration with the South Australian Museum and the Melbourne Museum, developing a virtual archive of Spencer and Gillen's Central Australian collections. Linked to these projects, the CDHR has developed a innovative comprehensive database system OCCAMS, and use film as an integral part of our research methods.