The Australian Aborigines : how to understand them / by A.P. Elkin
- Bib ID:
- 2392723
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Elkin, A. P. (Adolphus Peter), 1891-1979
- Description:
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- Sydney, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1938
- xiv, 262 p. : ill.
- Summary:
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See 4th and 5th editions for annotation.
- Notes:
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- "Additional reading": p. [257]-258
- Library's Whelan copy inscribed and signed by the author.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians
- Ethnology -- Australia
- Performing arts
- Technology
- Music
- Djinba / Dyinba people (N97) (NT SD53-02)
- Social organisation - Kinship
- Initiation
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Race relations - Racial discrimination
- Jawoyn people (N57) (NT SD53-09)
- Gender relations - Marriage
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Tiwi people (N20) (NT SC52-16)
- Kariyarra people (W39) (WA SF50-10)
- Karajarri people (A64) (WA SE51-10)
- Larrakia / Laragiya / Gulumirrgin people (N21) (NT SD52-04)
- Religion - Totemism
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Dhayyi / Dha?i language group (N118) (NT SD53-07)
- Ngalkbun people (N76) (NT SD53-06)
- Nyulnyul / Nyul Nyul people (K13) (WA SE51-02)
- Indigenous knowledge - World view
- Mayali / Mayawarli people (N44) (NT SD53-01)
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Ceremonies
- Rembarrnga people (N73) (NT SD53-06)
- Batjamal / Wogait people (N6) (NT SD52-07)
- Australia
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2049 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1979
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1938
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