My life's adventure / by Sir John Kirwan
- Bib ID:
- 2357573
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kirwan, John, Sir, 1869-1949
- Description:
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- London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1936
- xiii, 373 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
- Summary:
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Includes a brief series of reflections on Aborigines of the Nullarbor region mainly drawn from secondary sources; reference to the Aboriginal use of the Nullarbor Caves from Rev. G.C. Woolf; use of Ooldea springs; reminiscences of meeting with Daisy Bates - kinship and marriage rules, infanticide, cannibalism and its link to circumcision rites.
- Subject:
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- Kirwan, John, Sir, 1869-1949
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Cannibalism
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Western Australia -- Politics and government
- Australia -- History -- 1901-1945
- Nullarbor Plain (SE WA, Far West SA SH51, SH52, SI52)
- Ooldea (Far West SA SH52-12)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1949
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1936
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