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'Neville White AM is a biological anthropologist and an Emeritus Scholar at La Trobe University. His early research investigated social, cultural, and environmental influences on population genetic diversity in Aboriginal Australia. Situated since 1971 in North East Arnhem Land, and centred in the Donydji homeland community since 1974, he has worked and lived with Yolngu communities for some time each year since then. His research has widened to include medical anthropology, nutritional health, ethnobiology, and Yolngu management of their natural and cultural landscapes. Since 2003, his work has focused on community development in the Donydji homeland with the help of Vietnam Veteran volunteers and philanthropic funding, particularly through Rotary Club of Melbourne.' (Text Special Issue 62)