Arguments about Aborigines: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9780521460088 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 240 str.

L. R. Hiatt

Opis

In the nineteenth century, Australian Aborigines were used by European scholars as an exemplar of early human forms, and have consequently featured as the crucial case study for generations of social theorists and anthropologists. Arguments about Aborigines examines controversial subjects such as family life, religion and ritual, and land rights through the prism of Aboriginal studies. Professor Hiatt's book will provide a valuable introduction to Aboriginal ethnography, and is a shrewd and stimulating history of the central questions in Aboriginal studies.

Recenzje

'… handsome and elegantly written book … L. R. Hiatt leads us with a sure hand and dry humour through this personal selection of Arguments about Aborigines.' Ian Keen, The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Prologue; 2. Real estates and phantom hordes; 3. Group marriage; 4. The woman question; 5. People without politics; 6. High gods; 7. Conception and misconception; 8. Dangerous mothers-in-law and disfigured sisters; 9. Initiation: the case of the cheeky yam; 10. Epilogue; Notes; References; Index.