Changing skin colour in Australia : Herbert Basedow and the black Caucasian / Heidi Zogbaum
- Bib ID:
- 5012821
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Zogbaum, Heidi, 1944-
- Description:
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- North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010
- 324 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781921509926
- Summary:
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Background on the life, work and influence of Herbert Basedow; family and early education; Lutheran attitude to Aborigines; association with Hermann Klaatsch; differences in German and English anthropology; physical anthropological work of Klaatsch - Aborigines as a primary race to Europeans; theories on the racial origins and affiliations of Aborigines; German eugenics movement ? early statements of Aryan racial superiority; appointment as Protector of Aborigines of the Northern Territory; attitudes to and administration of Aboriginal children - Bungalow Half Caste Home; dispute with Noetling; solutions to the ?half-caste problem?; publication of 'The Australian Aboriginal'; A.O. Neville and the administration of mixed race children; problem of traditional practices - creation of cannibalism and infanticide; establishment of ?Sister Kate?s?; Basedow?s medicine and Aboriginal health - relation of fair hair and hookworm; formation and aims of the Aborigines? Protection League of South Australia - petition to create an Aboriginal state; racial theory in Germany; publication of 'Knights of the Boomerang'; agues that the theory of Aborigines as an ancestral Caucasian fuelled eugenic based policy.
- Notes:
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- "Including Herbert Basedow's 'Knights of the boomerang' and David Kaus's essay 'On the photography of Herbert Basedow'".
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-319) and index.
- Subject:
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- Basedow, Herbert, 1881-1933
- Race discrimination -- Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- White Australia Policy
- Social identity - Mixed descent
- Warumungu people (C18) (NT SE53-10)
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Malak Malak people (N22) (NT SD52-08)
- Wik Epa people (Y52) (Qld SD54-07)
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Alyawarr / Alyawarre people (C14) (NT SF53-07)
- Gathering - Honey
- Art - Photography - Photographers
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Human biology - Physical anthropology
- Feuds and warfare - Avenging
- Kaytetye / Kaytej people (C13) (NT SF53-06)
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Race relations - Racism - Eugenics
- Jawoyn people (N57) (NT SD53-09)
- Art - Subjects - Contact
- Race relations
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Wardaman people (N35) (NT SD52-16)
- Fishing - Fish poisoning
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Gender relations - Elopement
- Death - Human remains - Mummies
- Initiation - Subincision
- Marrithiyel people (N7) (NT SD52-07)
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1901-1925
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1851-1900
- Jingulu / Djingili / Jingili people (C22) (NT SE53-06)
- Kukatja people (A68) (WA SF52-02)
- Wulwulam / Wuna language (N32) (NT SD52-08)
- Gathering - Insects - Ants and termites
- Anthropology - Theory and criticism
- Batjamal / Wogait people (N6) (NT SD52-07)
- Race relations - Racism - Fascism and Nazism
- Luritja / Loritja people (C7.1) (NT SG52-04)
- Race relations - Racial discrimination
- Pitjantjatjara people (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Hunting - Birds - Emus
- Death - Mourning
- Human biology - Physical anthropology - Hair characteristics
- Water supply
- Initiation - Tooth avulsion
- Cannibalism
- Australia -- Race relations
- Northern Territory (NT)
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