Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt''s Kamilaroi and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) written from both a historical and anthropological perspective. Southern Anthropology investigates the authors'' work on Aboriginal and Pacific people and the reception of their book in metropolitan centres.

''Southern Anthropology makes an important and original contribution to the history of Anglophone and Antipodean anthropology''. - Professor Nicolas Peterson, Australian National University