Obituary: Athol Kennedy Chase (1936‐2020).

Athol Chase was an anthropologist committed to the benefits of cross-disciplinary research. His thesis was influenced considerably by his supervisor John von Sturmer (Chase and von Sturmer, 1973), who subsequently facilitated Athol's initial engagements with Aboriginal communities in Cape York Peninsula. His co-authored paper with plant ecologist Ross Hynes (Hynes and Chase, 1982; see also Chase, 1989) introduced a significant and original theorisation of plant usage in Cape York Peninsula. With colleague David Thompson, he continued to produce commissioned anthropological work for native title cases, until and after his retirement from formal university employment in 2001 (e.g. Chase and Thompson, 2004; Thompson and Chase, 2014). [Extracted from the article]