Return to Eden

The Author: David H. Turner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of Trinity College as well as a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He left Canada in 1967 after completing his B.A. at Carleton University in Ottawa to undertake his Ph.D. at the University of Western Australia under Professor R.M. Berndt. He inaugurated Aboriginal Studies in the School of General Studies at the Australian National University between 1972 and 1974 before returning to Canada. He has also worked with the Mara/Anyula people of southern Arnhem Land in Australia, surveyed the Aboriginal population of the Northern Territory as a whole and conducted comparative research in northern Canada with the Cree, in Bali, in north India, in Japan and in aspects of contemporary English and Canadian societies. He is author of Tradition and Transformation, Dialects in Tradition, Shamattawa (with Paul Wertman) and Life Before Genesis (also in this series).