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"This short essay on the Aborigines of Western Australia is primarily useful as a historical document. Even at the time this was written there were few Aborigines remaining in this area, and so even scraps of information like this are important. The text is particularly revealing as to Victorian attitudes towards Aborigines. Every paragraph of this piece needs to be read with a careful eye for underlying racist assumptions.

That said, the author was well intentioned. Calvert, who lists literally dozens of academic affiliations on the title page, does criticize his contemporaries for their treatment of Aborigines as subhumans. Throughout the essay he attempts to demonstrate that the native Australians have a complete cultural inventory. He notes that many of the Aboriginal beliefs and practices which seem strange to Europeans are not that different than some listed in the Bible. He ends with a plea for protection of the Aborigines. It bears pointing out this paternalistic attitude ironically led to policies which devastated aboriginal culture.

There is some valid data here, however, particularly the linguistic samples and transcriptions of songs." (Quote from sacred-texts.com)

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Publisher's Preface; Preface.; Introduction.; Languages; Early Accounts; Contemporary Accounts; Laws Of Marriage; Land Ownership; Law; Women; Hunting And Gathering; Physical Strength; Childhood; Music And Poetry; Religion And Mythology; Funerals; Old Testament Parallels; Boomerangs; Humor; Protection Of Aborigines; Conclusion

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Many of our habits, doubtless, they refuse to imitate. They will cook their food on the embers, but object to boiling or steaming; most kinds of work they rather object to, but smoking and drinking are of course readily acquired. Praiseworthy efforts have been made by both Protestant and Catholic Missionaries among the natives of Western Australia; the most successful of the missions being that started by Bishop Salvado. This Monastic Institution at New Norcia--conducted by Spanish monks--was that spoken of by Sir F. Napier Broome, G.C.M.G., in a paper read by him to the members of the Royal Colonial Institute some years ago. ... Read more

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Exactly as the title describes. A wonderful photographic collection of Aboriginal life. ... Read more

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A fabulous short research about the aborigines of Western Australia. Through simple and vivid language Calvert has portrayed the culture and traditions of natives very superbly. Awe-inspiring! ... Read more

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A fabulous short research about the aborigines of Western Australia. Through simple and vivid language Calvert has portrayed the culture and traditions of natives very superbly. Awe-inspiring! ... Read more

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A fabulous short research about the aborigines of Western Australia. Through simple and vivid language Calvert has portrayed the culture and traditions of natives very superbly. Awe-inspiring! ... Read more

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A fabulous short research about the aborigines of Western Australia. Through simple and vivid language Calvert has portrayed the culture and traditions of natives very superbly. Awe-inspiring! ... Read more

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A fabulous short research about the aborigines of Western Australia. Through simple and vivid language Calvert has portrayed the culture and traditions of natives very superbly. Awe-inspiring! ... Read more

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A fabulous short research about the aborigines of Western Australia. Through simple and vivid language Calvert has portrayed the culture and traditions of natives very superbly. Awe-inspiring! ... Read more

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This book looks at the fascinating history and culture of the Aborigines. ... Read more

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"THE object of this work is to preserve, before civilization has made them obsolete, the traditions and customs of the aboriginal natives of the North-West of Western Australia--particularly those of the Pilbarra district--as accurately as possible, based upon upwards of twenty years' observation. Since the discovery of gold and the consequent influx of population the natives cannot carry out their traditions as they used to do--most of the young men being in the employment of the whites, prefer to imitate them, caring little or nothing for their elders' teachings. So it is merely a matter of time when they will become extinct." ... Read more