C. W. M. Hart
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Charles William Merton Hart (1905–1976) was a social anthropologist and sociologist best known for his study of the Tiwi people of the Bathurst and Melville Islands (or Tiwi Islands) in north Australia during the 1920s. He has been described as a "legendary ethnographer".[1]
Hart studied anthropology at the University of Sydney. His first teaching position was at the University of Toronto, from 1932. From 1947 to 1959 he was at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and from 1959 to 1969 at Istanbul University. In 1969 he retired to North America, taking a visiting position at Wichita State University in 1971 which he held until his death.[2]
