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Detail of wrap - ROCK ART OF THE DREAMTIME (flood1p 150/210 FLOO1)
Flood, Josephine. ROCK ART OF THE DREAMTIME. Images of Ancient Australia. BNo. 0-207-18908-0. First Edition, 1997 (pb). Pp: xii, 372; 240mm x 170mm; 0.90kg. Num col, b/w, fig & maps. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, glossary, further reading, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Harper Collins Publishers, Sydney, 1997. (Rock art from both southern and northern Australia is presented in this book. The author gives an overview of the recent research, dating techniques and discoveries and discusses the problems and perplexities that continue to baffle and fascinate archaeologists) (Keywords: Archaeology, rock art, Australia, Aboriginal, indigenous peoples).
Book Code: S275 AU$22
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Detail of wrap - WOMAN'S ROLE IN ABORIGINAL SOCIETY (gale1ap 145/218 GALE1)
Gale, Fay (editor). WOMAN'S ROLE IN ABORIGINAL SOCIETY. Australian Aboriginal Studies No.36; Social Anthropology Series No.6. BNo.0-85575-047-2. Third Edition, 1978 (pb). Pp: viii, 84; 210mm x 150mm; 0.20kg. 9 b/w, 5 fig, 1 tab. Introduction, appendix for the revised edition. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1978. (Contributors include: Fay Gale, Betty Hiatt, Nicolas Peterson, Annette Hamilton, Isobel M. White, Diane E. Barwick, and Catherine H. Berndt) (Keywords: Social anthropology, Australia, Aboriginal, women).
Book Code: K228 AU$35
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Goodale, Jane C. TIWI WIVES. A Study of the Women of Melville Island, North Australia. BNo. 0-295-95354-3. Second Printing, 1980 (1971)(pb). Pp: xxiv, 368; 215mm x 140mm; 0.43kg. 17 b/w, 14 fig, 18 tab, 1 map. Introduction, glossary, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (minor wear). University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1981. (This book examines an Aboriginal culture through the role of its women, who play an important part in the society both economically and ceremonially) (Keywords: Anthropology, Australia, Aboriginal, Melville Island, Tiwi).
Book Code: D663 AU$25
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Greenway, John. BIBLIOGRAPHY of the AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES and the native peoples of TORRES STRAIT. To 1959. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1963. Pp: xvi, 420; 240mm x 160mm; 0.72kg. 1 map. Foreword, introduction, acknowledgments, remarks, checklist, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Angus and Robertson Limited, Sydney, 1963. (This book contains 10,283 titles of books and articles relating to indigenous peoples of Australia. It also contains a tribal map and key to location of 554 tribes) (Keywords: Bibliography, reference, anthropology, Australia, Aboriginal, Torres Strait).
Book Code: P180 AU$400
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Detail of wrap - BROKEN SONG - T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession (hill15p 140/212 HILL15)
Hill, Barry. BROKEN SONG - T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession. A biography of Strehlow and a history of the Centre. BNo.1-74051-229-4. Second Impression, 2003 (2002) (pb). Pp: xix, 818; 235mm x 155mm; 1.22kg. 52 b/w, 10 fig, 1 map. Acknowledgments, overture, permissions, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Vintage, Random House Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney, 2003. (The author, Barry Hill, with exclusive access to Strehlow's diaries, offers a deeply layered intellectual recovery of Strehlow's life in translation, and, by implication, a placement of it in the context of contemporary anxieties about cultural degeneration and continuity. This is both a critical study of the work and an intimate narrative of Strehlow's yearnings. Broken Song straddles a century of Australian history, from the race wars on the frontier to the modern era, and flowing through everything is Strhlow's passionate ambivalence towards Aranda culture's mode of sustaining desire) (Keywords: Biography, anthropologist, Strehlow, history, Central Australia, Aborigines, Aranda).
Book Code: U280 AU$42
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Detail of wrap - NOTES ON THE NARANGGA TRIBE OF YORKE PENINSULA (hill05p 140/215 HILL05)
Hill, D.L. & S.J. Hill. NOTES ON THE NARANGGA TRIBE OF YORKE PENINSULA. From listed published works and field research. BNo.0-9598268-0-7. First Edition, 1975 (pb). Pp: 63; 210mm x 140mm; 0.11kg. 32 b/w, 4 fig, 1 map. Foreword, introduction, references, acknowledgments. A very good paperback copy with staple binding. Wrg: vg. D.L. Hill and Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide, 1975. (This book is a brief but informative introduction to the prehistoric sites of ancient Aboriginal man on Yorke Peninsula. It portrays the historical way of life of the Aborigines by bringing together the existing records and adding the authors' own impressions from twelve years research) (Keywords: Prehistory, cultural, South Australia, Aboriginal, Narangga).
Book Code: M612 AU$25
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Detail of wrapper of THE PEOPLE IN BETWEEN - The Pitjantjatjara People of Ernabella (hilliard1p 150/228 HILL01)
Hilliard, Winifred M. THE PEOPLE IN BETWEEN. The Pitjantjatjara People of Ernabella. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1968. Pp: 253; 220mm x 145mm; 0.57kg. 15 col(pl), 17 b/w(pl), 4 maps. Foreword, introduction, epilogue, notes, appendices I to V, selected bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (wear on dw with minor tear at back of wrapper; small penned name on fep). Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London, 1968. (The author describes in detail the elaborate culture of the Pitjantjatjara people. She discusses the language, exogamous rules, morality, hunting and food gathering, cooking, child care and burial customs, and she describes the work of the Ernabella Mission with special reference to the craft skills the people have mastered and the artistic sensibility they display, examples of which are reproduced in the book) (Keywords: Social anthropology, Australia, Aboriginal).
Book Code: T113 AU$39
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Houston, Carol. AUSTRALIA'S ABORIGINAL HERITAGE. A reference guide. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1973 (pb). Pp: 36; 255mm x 195mm; 0.11kg. 3 b/w. Introduction, bibliographies. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. The Aboriginal and Historic Relics Advisory Board, Adelaide, 1973. (Lists of information, educational and biographical resources available in South Australia) (Keywords: Anthropology, bibliography, resources, cultural history).
Book Code: N523 AU$20
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Kimber, R.G. MAN FROM ARLTUNGA. Walter Smith - Australian Bushman. BNo. 0-85905-225-7. Second Edition, 1996 (1986)(pb). Pp: vi, 187; 215mm x 140mm; 0.23kg. 6 col, 5 b/w, 2 maps. Acknowledgments, introduction, end notes, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, Western Australia, 1996. (This book tells Walter Smith's life story, one of the last old-style bushmen of outback Australia) (Keywords: Exploration, Australia, outback, central, Uluru).
Book Code: N575 AU$25
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Detail of wrap - PATTERNS OF ABORIGINAL CULTURE (king-boyes10p 150/215 KING10)
King-Boyes, M. PATTERNS OF ABORIGINAL CULTURE. Then and Now. BNo. 0-07-093400-2. First Edition 1977 (pb). Pp: (x), 175; 225mm x 150mm; 0.29kg. 4 b/w, 20 fig. Acknowledgments, preface, index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (minor mark on wrp). McGraw-Hill Book Company, Sydney, 1977. (Chapter titles are as follows: The Australian Myth, Fact or Fallacy?; The Effects of Cultural Myopia; Creation and Cosmology - Man and Myth and Man and Nature; Creative Arts; The Roots of the Tragedy; South Australia - The Noble Intention; Seed Time and Harvest; and The Precipice) (Keywords: Social cultural, sociology, history, Australia, Aboriginal).
Book Code: P198 AU$15
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Detail of wrapper - ABORIGINAL ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE (laudine05p 140/211 LAUD05)
Laudine, Catherine. ABORIGINAL ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE. Rational Reverence. BNo.978-0-7546-6430-7. First Edition, 2009. Pp: (xii), 187; 230mm x 155mm; 0.52kg. 5 b/w, 1 fig. Acknowledgments, epilogue, appendix, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Ashgate Publishing Limited, London, 2009. (This book is based on a grounded and broad assessment on less well known details of Aboriginal knowledge and provides both a great deal of detail and a new assessment of rituals and practices. Aboriginal environmental knowledge is examined here as an integrated source of both religious and scientific knowledge. An important finding is that Aboriginal environmental knowledge also includes knowledge about education for attitudes considered appropriate for survival) (Keywords: Social anthropology, Australia, Aboriginal, environment, knowledge, religion, science).
Book Code: W288 AU$120
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Detail of wrap - PATTERNS OF ABORIGINAL CULTURE (king-boyes10p 150/215 KING10)
Lawlor, Robert. VOICES OF THE FIRST DAY. Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime. BNo.0-89281-355-5. First Edition 1991 (pb). Pp: xviii, 412; 4to, 250mm x 200mm; 1.06kg. 196 b/w, col & fig, num text illus. Preface, introduction, endnotes, bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (minor wear on wrp). Inner Traditions International Ltd, Rochester, 1991. (This book is illustrated throughout with drawings, art reproductions, and photographs. Many of the photographs are among the earliest ever made of the Aboriginal people and are shown here for the first time) (Keywords: Mythology, Australia, Aboriginal, lifestyle, hunting, gathering, ritual practices, traditions, kinship, Dreaming, ancestors).
Book Code: V182 AU$63
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Maddock, Kenneth. THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. A Portrait of their Society. BNo. 0-14-022396-7. Second Edition, 1982 (1974) (pb). Pp: (x), 198; 195mm x 130mm; 0.20kg. 8 fig, 1 map. Preface, introduction, notes, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (penned name on fep). Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, 1982. (In this completely rewritten and revised edition, the author sets out many of the contemporary issues concerning Aborigines and Aboriginal studies, as well as analysing the Aborigines' relationship with the land and the troublesome problem of land rights) (Keywords: Sociology, Australia, Aboriginal, indigenous people).
Book Code: H057 AU$12
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Detail of wrap - WOMEN OF THE SUN (maris5p 150/228 MARI05)
Maris, Hyllus & Sonia Borg. WOMEN OF THE SUN. Four episodes of the award-winning TV series. BNo. 0-86819-081-0. Reprint Edition, 1989 (1983) (pb). Pp: xiv, 234; 225mm x 150mm; 0.37kg. Num b/w. Acknowledgments. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (minor wear on wrap). Currency Press Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1989. (This book is based on the four television dramas which portrayed the history of Australia's Aboriginal people since the incursion of the white man) (Keywords: Cultural history, social culture, Australia, Aboriginal, indigenous people, Nyari, Cummeragunya, Echuca).
Book Code: E078 AU$15
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