ISBN:
0-511-69522-5
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (lxxii, 484 pages) :
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illustrations (black and white), maps (colour), digital, PDF file(s).
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Linguistics
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection.
DDC:
305.899150945
Keywords:
Aboriginal Australians
Abstract:
Robert Brough Smyth was a successful Melbourne-based mining engineer & civil servant whose international contacts included the geologist Adam Sedgwick. He also spent 16 years as Secretary of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines. In this study of the society & customs of indigenous Australians in the Victoria region, first published in 1878, he combines his own observations with those of others who lived or worked closely with the Aboriginal population. Volume 1 discusses the Aborigines' physical & mental characteristics, demographics, social interaction, rituals, daily life & mythology. Comparisons are made throughout with other indigenous populations, particularly those of nearby Pacific & Indonesian islands. Illustrated throughout, the book takes into account the changes forced on the native population by the arrival of European settlers in the late eighteenth century.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2009.
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Originally published: Melbourne: George Robertson, 1878.
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English
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