Herbert Ian ('Ian') Hogbin

Dr Herbert Ian ('Ian') Hogbin MA PhD
Born	1904
Died	1989
Residence	c/o Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Australia House, Strand, WC2 [1929] Dept. of Anthropology, The University, Sydney, NSW, Australia [1931]
Occupation	anthropologist academic
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow 1929 Hon. Fellow for Australia elected_AI 1929.05.28 societies Polynesian Society

Notes

House Notes

1929.04.30 nominated
1944 Wellcome medal. Native councils and native courts in the Solomon Islands
1946 Rivers Memorial Medal
1968.04.18 proposed as Hon. Fellow by Dr Kaberry

Notes From Elsewhere

Herbert Ian Priestley Hogbin ("Ian Hogbin") (17 December 1904 – 2 August 1989) was a British-born Australian anthropologist. He conducted field work in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea.
Ian Hogbin was born in Bawtry, Yorkshire, England and died at Potts Point, Sydney, Australia.
Hogbin began his study of anthropology with Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, who founded the anthropology department at the University of Sydney, and his earliest field work was carried out under Radcliffe-Brown’s supervision in Ontong Java, a Polynesian colony in the Solomon Islands. Some of the results were published in his book Law and Order in Polynesia. He then went to London to work with Bronislaw Malinowski, at whose suggestion he returned to the Solomons, where he stayed in Guadalcanal and afterwards in Malaita. Subsequently, he made an investigation of the people of Wogeo, an island off the north coast of New Guinea.
During World War II he served in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defence Force and later in the Australian Army in New Guinea as an adviser on native rehabilitation problems. He continued working in New Guinea, and, in 1963, published the second of two volumes on the Busama villagers, who occupied a settlement near the town of Lae.
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain awarded him the Wellcome Medal for a work in applied anthropology in 1944 and the Rivers Medal for field work in 1945. He delivered the Munro Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1949, the Josiah Mason Lectures at the University of Birmingham in 1953, and the Marett Memorial Lecture at Oxford in 1961. The University of Melbourne awarded two of his books (Transformation Scene and Social Change) the Harbison-Higinbotham Prize.

Publications

External Publications

Law and Order in Polynesia: A Study of Primitive Legal Institution, 1934
Social Advancement in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1938
Development and Welfare in the Western Pacific, 1944
Transformation Scene, 1951
Social Change, 1958
Kinship and Marriage in a New Guinea Village, 1963
A Guadalcanal Society: The Kaoka Speakers, 1964
Studies in New Guinea Land Tenure, 1967 (with Peter Lawrence)
The Island of Menstruating Men: Religion in Wogeo, New Guinea, 1970 (Reissued Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 1996)

House Publications

Tribal Ceremonies at Ongtong Java (Solomon Islands) JRAI vol. 61 (jan-jun 1931) pp. 27-55

Feb. 11 1936 read Mana illustrated by lantern slides

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