ISBN:
9780511751202
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 516 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausgabe 2011
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Linguistics
DDC:
305.8991509429
Keywords:
Aboriginal Australians Social life and customs
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Aboriginal Australians Rites and ceremonies
Abstract:
Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer was a British Australian biologist & anthropologist, best known for his work amongst the indigenous Aboriginal tribes of Australia. After graduating from Exeter College, Oxford in 1884 Spencer was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford in 1886 before being appointed the Professor of Biology at the University of Melbourne. In 1911 Spencer was appointed Special Commissioner for Aborigines & undertook fieldwork in the Northern Territories between 1911-1912. This volume, first published in 1914, is the result of his fieldwork.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2010
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Originally published: London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914
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Includes index
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 23, 2020)
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Online-Ausgabe:
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751202
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