Helen Gardner is an historian of colonialism, anthropology and mission in the Pacific Islands and Australia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Patrick McConvell is an anthropologist and linguist with particular interests in Indigenous Australia, interdisciplinary prehistory and kinship. He is engaged with the ARC Discovery Project 'Kin and Skin' (AustKin).

1. Introduction. The Publication Of Kamilaroi And Kurnai
2. Morgan Imaging Kinship
3. The Unity Of World Kinship: A Southern Perspective
4. The Apocalypse In The South: Fison In Victoria And Fiji
5. Twice Converted: Fison's Epiphany
6. Cracks In The Theory: The Problems Of The Pacific
7. Fison's Fiji Discovery And The Interpretation Of Kinship History
8. Seeing Gamilaraay
9. Evidence And Anomalies From Australian And Pacific Sites
10. Howitt And Tulaba
11. The Turn From Kin To Skin
12. Time, Human Difference And Evolution In Oceania
13. Pen To Paper: Writing Kamilaroi And Kurnai
14. Kamilaroi And Kurnai: The Content And The Form
15. The Anthropology Of Kamilaroi And Kurnai
16. The British Response To Kamilaroi And Kurnai
17. The Legacy Of Kamilaroi And Kurnai In The Anthropology Of Kinship
18. Conclusion

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.