Author: Heinrich August Edward Meyer
Publisher:
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Brief description from birth - care of child during infancy - infanticide practiced on deformed, weak or illegitimate children or those making more that two in family; food allowed & restrictions on various members; initiation of young men, giving of girls in marriage & account of ceremony; construction of shelters by women, methods of catching fish, birds & animals & cooking preparations; magic used for killing enemies, treatment of illnesses by medicine man; different methods of burial practices - myths related; bodily ornamentation of men for tribal dances, with participation of women at Mootabaringar; legend of rain & origin of languages; also In Native tribes of South Australia, 1879; 183-206.
Author: by H. A. E. Meyer
Publisher:
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Author: Heinrich August Edward Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Author: Heinrich August Edward Meyer
Publisher: Adelaide : Printed and published for Government, by G. Dehane, 1846 ; [Adelaide : Public Library of South Australia
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Author: Philip Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1787380858
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Ochre and Rust offers a fresh perspective on frontier relations between Australian Aboriginal people and European colonists. Nine museum artefacts take the reader into a fascinating zone of encounter and mutual curiosity between collectors and those indigenous people who piqued or responded to their interest. While colonialism is the broad frame, details gleaned from archives, images and the objects themselves reveal a new picture of interaction between individual Aboriginal people and European collectors. Philip Jones explores and makes sense of particular historical moments in colonial history, when Aboriginal people perceived and expected other, more elusive outcomes. Ochre and Rust, an elegantly written challenge to received wisdom about the colonial frontier, has won Australia's inaugural Prime Minister's Award for Literary Non-Fiction.
Author: Felicity Jensz
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004181539
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Focusing on the six decades that German Moravian missionaries worked in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, this book enriches understanding of colonial politics and the role of the non-British other in manipulating practice and policy in foreign realms. Central to the transnational nature of the book are questions of identity and of how individuals, and the organisations they worked for, can be seen as both colluders and opposers within nation-state borders and politics. It analyses the ways in which the Moravian missionaries navigated competing agendas within the colonial setting, especially those that impacted on their sense of personal vocation, their practices of conversion, and their understandings of the indigenous non-Christian peoples in the settler society of Victoria.
Author: Peggy Brock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000248372
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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In struggles over access to land, Aboriginal women's concerns have often remained unacknowledged. Their words - and silences - have been frequently misheard, misunderstood, misrepresented, misused. The controversy about 'secret women's business' in the Hindmarsh Island Bridge conflict has brought this issue to the attention of the general public. How can Aboriginal women assert their claims while protecting, by remaining silent, their culturally sensitive knowledge? How can they prevent their words and silences being misrepresented? Words and Silences explores the barriers confronting Aboriginal women trying to defend their land rights. The contributors to this volume provide insights into the intricacies of Aboriginal social and cultural knowledge, and introduce the reader to different understandings of how the gendered nature of Aboriginal land ownership adds complexity to the cross-cultural encounter. In lively and engaging prose they document the ongoing struggles of Aboriginal women across Australia, who are fighting to ensure they receive due recognition of their rights in land.
Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136548440
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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This volume brings together all the evidence bearing upon the procreative beliefs of the Australian Aborigines and subjects it to a scientific examination in the light of biological, social and psychological research. First published in 1937. This edition reprints the revised edition of 1974.
Author: Christophe Darmangeat
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793632324
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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Meticulously examining ethnographic sources, Christophe Darmangeat argues that warfare among Australian Aborigines was mostly an extension of their judicial systems. He demonstrates how violent conflict occurred when circumstances prohibited regulated proceedings.
Author: Gillian Dooley
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 174305615X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or non-existent knowledge, contemporary theories like the idea of the noble savage, and an automatic belief in the superiority of European civilisation. Mutual misunderstanding was almost universal, whether it resulted in violence or apparently friendly transactions. Written for a general audience, The First Wave brings together a variety of contributions from thought-provoking writers, including both original research and creative work. Our contributors explore the dynamics of these early encounters, from Indigenous cosmological perspectives and European history of ideas, from representations in art and literature to the role of animals, food and fire in mediating first contact encounters, and Indigenous agency in exploration and shipwrecks. The First Wave includes poetry by Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann, fiction by Miles Franklin award-winning Noongar author Kim Scott and Danielle Clode, and an account of the arrival of Christian missionaries in the Torres Strait Islands by Torres Strait political leader George Mye.
