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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., limited in 1894 in 73 pages; Description: Early contacts, quotes Dampier, Preston, Dale, Bussel; Brief notes on New Norcia Mission; Method of discovering whereabouts of murderer (West Kimberley); Betrothal (Perth area) Aboriginal equipment, foods; Songs with English translation & music transcript; General beliefs, burial rites Perth, Vasse R., King Georges Sound.; Subjects: Aboriginal Australians; Australian aborigines; Western Australia; History / General; History / Australia & New Zealand; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Archaeology; Social Science / Sociology / General; Travel / Australia & Oceania; ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be the worthy civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines to have been a monster of deceit and a betrayer of those it was his role to protect - a man who made perhaps the most repellent contribution of all to what was to become the decimation of Tasmania's Aborigines. ... Read more

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This book focuses on the colonial practice of rationing goods to Aboriginal people, arguing that much of the colonial experience in Central Australia can be understood by seeing rationing as a fundamental, though flexible, instrument of colonial government. Rationing was the material basis for a variety of colonial ventures: scientific, evangelical, pastoral and the postwar program of "assimilation." Combining history and anthropology in a cultural study of rationing, this book develops a new narrative of the colonization of Central Australia. ... Read more

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First rate history
Rowse traces the history of Aboriginal contact withwhite settlers by examining the economic rewards offered to the indigenous people by pastoralists and missionaries, from the first distribution of foodstuffs through the integration of Aboriginal people into a cash economy in the last 50 years.This is a book that wil suprise you with insights and connections, make even statistics live, and demonstrate how comlicated the skein of relationships between black and white in Australia hav ebeen and continue to be.Each transaction seems to offer good and bad, and although Rowse never attempts to speak for the Aboriginal people, but only examines the voices of whitefellas through their leavings in the historical record, he manages to pressent a balanced and nuanced understanding of both sides of the frontier. ... Read more

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Phyllis Kaberry and Me tells the fascinating story of two women, both anthropologists, who worked with Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia - one in the 1930s, the other in the 1980s and 1990s.

Phyllis Kaberry and Me raises fascinating questions about the nature of biography, the doing and writing of ethnography, the representation and interpretation of culture, and the changes and continuities in Aboriginal Australia. With energy and originality, this remarkable book explores past, present and future relationships between anthropologists and the people among whom they work. ... Read more

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David Unaipon was a most extraordinary man. He was not only an early Aboriginal political activist, but also a scientist, a writer, a preacher and an inventor. In the 1920s, under contract at the University of Adelaide, he was commissioned to collect traditional Aboriginal stories from around South Australia. He also acted as a 'collector' for the Aborigines Friends' Association. The manuscript version of the stories he collected is now held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. Most of them come from his own Ngarrindjeri people, but some are from other South Australian peoples. Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker, who are working on a definitivebiography of David Unaipon, have put together a new collection of the stories he collected and transcribed. ... Read more

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The Story of the Seven Sisters and the Faithful Lovers

A Legend of the Sacred Bullroarer

Giant Kangaroos

The Great Fight

The Flying Chip

Why the Whale Spouts, the Starfish is Ragged, and the Native Bear has Strong Arms

A Legend of the Great Flood

How the Stars Were Made: Rolla-Mano and the Evening Star

Why the Crow is Black

Why Flying Foxes Hang from Trees: A Legend of the Striped-Tail Lizard

Why Blackfellows Never Travel Alone: A Legend of the Wallaroo and Willy-Wagtail

How the Kangaroo Got a Long Tail, and the Wombat a Flat Forehead

Why the Emu has Short Wings and the Native Companion a Harsh Voice

How the Sun was Made: Dawn, Noontide and Night

Thugine, the Rainbow and the Wandering Boys

Mirragan, the Fisherman: A Tale of the Wollandilly River, Whambeyan and Jenolan Caves

How Fire was Stolen from the Red-Crested Cockatoo

Why the Fish-Hawk was Driven to the Sea

How the Native Bear Lost His Tail ... Read more

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This lively book brings the reader close to the lives of people on a remote cattle station in Australia's Northern Territory, where black and white people's lives have been intimately intertwined over the span of eighty years. Gillian Cowlishaw makes startling and original arguments about race relations, showing how the policy of self-determination for Aboriginal peoples has had dramatic and unexpected results.
By tracing specific patterns of interaction on Australia's cultural frontier, this work illustrates how anthropologists, pastoralists, and government officials squabbled about Aborigines as they intruded into these "blackfellas'" country, controlled aspects of their lives, and dominated the way they were represented in the public realm. The ironic title hints that the difference between "redneck" pastoralists and "egghead" anthropologists is not so great as might be imagined. Aborigines were central to the projects of both kinds of whitefellas, each of whom claimed to know "their" others better.
Ultimately, Cowlishaw asserts that the social sciences' attempts to replace the concept of "race" with the concept of "culture"--as being more progressive, malleable, and politically neutral--have proved futile. The notion of deep seated and important differences between human groups has not been erased; rather, it is how they are rendered in analysis and in everyday life that is at issue.
This thought-provoking work will speak not only to anthropologists and those interested in Aboriginal Australia, but to scholars of race more generally, especially in the burgeoning field of whiteness studies.
Gillian Cowlishaw is Professor of Anthropology, University of Technology, Sydney. Ruth Frankenberg is the author of White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness.
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Rednecks Eggheads and Blackfellas
Rednecks Eggheads and Blackfellas is unrelentingly intelligent and bold - it is hard to know where to start and what to say! I am finding in so many places phrases and ideas that are immensely relevant and well written. Particularly impressive is the broad sweep of knowledge and perspectiveacross the policies from the time of the ordinance to assimilation to 'selfdetermination' to now. The statement that "assimilation can bereferred to contemptuously as though it was only an outdated govt. policyrather than a cultural process of making similar, which characterises muchintercultural experience" (p.293) is spot-on and well said; it makeswe whoop! This book is full of beautiful writing that can only come fromfully digesting the subject matter and making it your own. This is anincredible, great book. Students will find it in the library and think,"This is terrific! This is humourous and funky and sage!" It maybe too challenging of conventional wisdoms, too intelligent and scholarly(not easy rhetoric and populism) to make the big public splash it deserves.It is also ahead of its time - in so many place the book says things I havebeen trying to think, but no one else has articulated, let alone worked outhow to write it in a sustained fashion. It may be twenty years before it is appreciated but 'Rednecks..' will make some serious waves. ... Read more

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Must read
Burnum Burnum provides a heartfelt and thoughtful guide to Australia from an Aboriginal persepective. I love this book and it has been my constant companion on my Australian wanderings. Read it if you get the chance. ... Read more