'My dear Spencer' : the letters of F.J. Gillen to Baldwin Spencer / edited by John Mulvaney, Howard Morphy and Alison Petch
- Bib ID:
- 80140
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gillen, F. J. (Francis James), 1855-1912
- Description:
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- South Melbourne : Hyland House, 1997
- xvii, 554 p., [22] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports.; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1864470224
- Summary:
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Correspondence between Outback postmaster Frank Gillen and Melbourne University academic, Baldwin Spencer, spanning the period 1894 to 1903, shedding light on race relations, social conditions and Aboriginal culture.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
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- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems
- Culture
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Tjuringa / Churinga
- Ceremonies
- Environment - Climate and weather
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Warumungu people (C18) (NT SE53-10)
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- South Central Northern Territory (NT)
- Arltunga (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Barrow Creek (Central NT SF53-06)
- Mparntwe / Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Oodnadatta (SA Central Australia SG53-15)
- Moonta (SE SA SI53-12)
- Northern Territory - Central NT
- Subject:
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- Gillen, F. J. (Francis James), 1855-1912 -- Correspondence
- Gillen, F. J. (Francis James), 1855-1912 -- Diaries
- Spencer, Baldwin, Sir, 1860-1929 -- Correspondence
- Anthropologists -- Australia -- Correspondence
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Social life and customs
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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