Hogbin, Herbert Ian, 1904-1989

LC control no.	n 50043112
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Personal name heading	Hogbin, Herbert Ian, 1904-1989 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Hogbin, Ian, 1904-1989 Hogbin, H. Ian (Herbert Ian), 1904-1989 ホグビン, H. I., 1904-1989 Hogbin, Herbert William, 1904-1989
Birth date	1904-12-17
Death date	1989-08-02
Place of birth	Nottinghamshire (England)
Place of death	Sydney (N.S.W.)
Affiliation	University of Sydney Macquarie University
Profession or occupation	Anthropologists
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	His Law and order in Polynesia ... 1934. His Conversation with Ian Hogbin, 1989: t.p.; RLIN#ID:PAUGEAB9895-B (hdg.: Hogbin, Herbert Ian, 1904- ) Experiments in civilization, 1939: t.p. (H. Ian Hogbin; M.A. (Sydney), Ph. D. (London), lecturer in anthropology, Univ. of Sydney) Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, Nov. 14, 2007 (Hogbin, Herbert Ian Priestley (1904-1989), anthropologist) Australian Dictionary of Biography, via WWW, January 13, 2015 (Hogbin, Herbert Ian Priestley (1904-1989); anthropologist; born on 17 December 1904 at Serlby, Harworth, Nottinghamshire, England, and named Herbert William, son of Herbert Hogbin and Edith Fanny Smart; after migrating to Australia with his parents, he attended a school at Penrith, New South Wales, and then Fort Street Boys' High School, Sydney; he graduated with honours in English and geography at the University of Sydney (BA, 1926; Dip.Ed., 1927; MA, 1929); in 1929 he changed his name by deed poll to Herbert Ian Priestley Hogbin; Hogbin went on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (Ph. D., 1931); he returned to Sydney in 1931 to make this city his academic base for the rest of his career; in 1933 and 1934 Hogbin conducted a series of field studies in Melanesia, first in Guadal-canal and Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, and then in Wogeo in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea; he was appointed to a permanent position in the anthropology department at the University of Sydney in 1936; in 1942 Hogbin was appointed a member of the Australian government's Committee on National Morale; commissioned in the Australian Military Forces on 3 January 1944, he served in the Directorate of Research (and Civil Affairs) as a temporary lieutenant colonel; much of his service was in Papua and New Guinea; he returned to the University of Sydney in 1946 and was promoted to reader in 1948; in the mid-1940s he had begun his final field study, in the village of Busama, resulting in Transformation Scene (1951) and Kinship and Marriage in a New Guinea Village (1963); following his retirement from the University of Sydney in 1969, Hogbin lectured at Macquarie University for ten years and also served as an external examiner for the University of Papua New Guinea; he published nine books, several reports for governments and a steady flow of scholarly articles, mostly in the journal Oceania; he died on 2 August 1989 at Potts Point and his body was given to the University of Sydney)
Associated language	eng