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Arguments about aborigines

Australia and the evolution of social anthropology

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An edition of Arguments about aborigines (1996)

Arguments about aborigines

Australia and the evolution of social anthropology

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The emergence of anthropology in Britain coincided with the publication of Darwin's book on the origin of species. In the context of inescapable questions about the natural history of our own species, Australian Aborigines were assigned the role of exemplars par excellence of beginnings and early human forms.

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, European scholars bent on discovering the origins of social institutions began a rush on the Australian material that lasted well into the present century. The Aborigines have consequently featured as a crucial case-study for generations of social theorists, including Tylor, Frazer, Durkheim and Freud.

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Arguments about Aborigines reviews a range of controversies (some still alive) that played an important role in the formative period of British social anthropology. The chapters cover family life, male/female relationships, conception beliefs, the mother-in-law taboo, various aspects of religion and ritual, political organization, and land rights: all subjects that have been matters of lively interest and long-running research.

Along the way, the study traces changes in Aboriginal circumstances and practices and notes the ways in which these changes affected the scholarly debate.

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Pages
225

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Arguments about aborigines: Australia and the evolution of social anthropology
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-221) and index.

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Cambridge, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
306/.089/9915
Library of Congress
GN666 .H533 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 225 p. :
Number of pages
225

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Open Library
OL788172M
Internet Archive
argumentsaboutab00hiat
ISBN 10
0521460085, 0521566193
LCCN
95020518
OCLC/WorldCat
33079649, 503409300
Library Thing
926821
Goodreads
38248
1609540

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