Primitive intelligence and environment
- Bib ID:
- 2133175
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Porteus, Stanley D. (Stanley David), 1883-1972
- Description:
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- New York : Macmillan, 1937
- viii, 325p.
- Series:
- Hallstrom Pacific Collection.
- Summary:
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Field work 1929; Theory of origin of Australian natives; Kimberleys & Central Australia - food supply and general ecology; Environmental comparisons - Africa and Australia; Racial differences in mentality; Aboriginal maze tests; Natives at Beagle Bay Mission, (Nyul Nyul, Baadi); Moola Bulla Stations, (Kiedja); Hermannsburg, (Arunta, Luritcha); Results of tests.
- Notes:
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- "First printing."
- Includes index.
- Subject:
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- Ethnopsychology
- Human beings -- Effect of environment on
- Psychology - Cognition - Intelligence
- Kija / Gidja people (K20) (WA SE52-06)
- Indigenous peoples - Africa
- Luritja / Loritja people (C7.1) (NT SG52-04)
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Nyulnyul / Nyul Nyul people (K13) (WA SE51-02)
- Bardi people (K15) (WA SE51-02)
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Western Australia - Central Australia (WA SE52, SF52, SG52)
- Ntaria / Hermannsburg (South Central NT SF53-13)
- Moola Bulla (WA East Kimberley SE52-09)
- Beagle Bay (WA West Kimberley SE51-02)
- Africa
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2042 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1972
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1937
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