Aborigines of Tasmania.  -  ROTH, H. L. and BUTLER, M. E. and BACKHOUSE WALKER, J.,

KORTE INHOUD

First published in 1890 in a run of just 200 copies, anthropologist Henry Ling Roth's The Aborigines of Tasmania provides a comprehensive account of native Tasmanians' life and culture. Roth, writing in the wake of the Tasmanian Aborigines' extinction, produces 'an approach to absolute completeness' that relies on the accounts of the explorers, colonisers, and anthropologists who preceded him. His work covers an exhaustive range of detail, from the Tasmanians' mannerisms to their psychology, origin, and lan...
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2009 Uitgever: University Press Cambridge 398 paginas ISBN-10: 1108006647 ISBN-13: 9781108006644