Social anthropology and Australian aboriginal studies: a contemporary overview 0855751894, 9780855758189, 9780855755836, 0855755830

This volume summaries major developments in the social anthropology of Aboriginal studies in the 1960s-80s. It is valuab

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English Pages viii, 279 pages Year 1988;2011

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Ronald Murray;Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.;Tonkinson
Robert

Table of contents :
Preliminaries
Contents
A contemporary overview
Gender in Aboriginal social life: A review
Twenty-five years of Aboriginal kinship studies
The resurrection of the Hydra
Taking stock and looking forward.

Polecaj historie

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