Arguments about Aborigines: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology
By (author): "L.R. Hiatt"
Genres:Anthropology books Ecology books
Publish Date:
June 27th 1996
ISBN0521460085
ISBN139780521460088
AsinArguments about Aborigines: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology
Original titleArguments about Aborigines: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology
In the nineteenth century, Australian Aborigines were used by European scholars as an exemplar of early human forms, and have consequently featured as the crucial case study for generations of social theorists and anthropologists. Arguments about Aborigines examines controversial subjects such as family life, religion and ritual, and land rights through the prism of Aboriginal studies. Professor Hiatt's book will provide a valuable introduction to Aboriginal ethnography, and is a shrewd and stimulating history of the central questions in Aboriginal studies.