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Inga Clendinnen
Australian historian · Australia · On the map · Writers · Lived 1934 to 2016 · aged 82
Inga Vivienne Clendinnen, was an Australian author, historian, anthropologist, and academic. Her work focused on social history, and the history of cultural encounters. She was an authority on Aztec civilisation and pre-Columbian ritual human sacrifice.
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2016Died8 September 2016Dan David PrizeAward2006Officer of the Order of AustraliaAward1992Fellow of the Australian Academy of the HumanitiesAward1934Born17 August 1934
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She also wrote about the Holocaust and on first contacts between Indigenous Australians and white explorers. At her death, she was an Emeritus Scholar at La Trobe University, Melbourne.
Country
Australia
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1934 to 2016 · aged 82
