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I, The Aboriginal
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Author: Douglas LockwoodBinding: PaperbackPublished: Rigby, Adelaide, 1966Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles the extraordinary life of...
Hidden Worlds: Fresh Clues To The Past: Did Columbus, Magellan And Piri Reis Know The Glareanus Maps?
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Author: M. H. J. Th. Van Der Veer And P. MoermanBinding: HardbackPublished: Souvenir Press, 1974Condition:Book: PoorJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis...
White Blackfellows: The Strange Adventures Of Europeans Who Lived Among Savages
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Author: Charles BarrettBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne, Hallcraft Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd, 1948Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsWhite Blackfellows by Charles Barrett presents a...
Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994
In the early months of 1994, it became clear that the government of Rwanda had not acted in good faith in signing peace accords with its adversary, the Rwandan Patriotic...
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis of our times. The South...
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect...
Hunters and Gatherers (Vol II): Vol II: Property, Power and Ideology
All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of...
Raising Children: Surprising Insights from Other Cultures
Why in some parts of the world do parents rarely play with their babies and never with toddlers? Why in some cultures are children not fully recognized as individuals until...
Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in
Nationalism in the Vernacular illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics. In doing so, it provides a new angle to the understanding of nationalism by looking...
A Short History of Humanity: How Migration Made Us Who We Are
An international bestseller, covering 2 million years of human history in 250 pages, which proves that migration has always been essential to our survival. Humanity has often found itself on...
Songs At the River's Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village
Part autobiography, part travelogue, part anthropological study, this is an account of a Western woman living in a Muslim Bangladeshi village for 18 months. On an anthropological level, it demonstrates...
A View to a Death in the Morning: Nature of Hunting Through History
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What brought the ape out of the trees, and so the man out of the ape, was a taste for blood. This is how the story went, when a few...
People of the Earth: Introduction to World Prehistory
The story of human history throughout the world is told in this book, from the origins of humankind to the beginnings of literate civilizations. Fagan does not favour any specific...
Phyllis Kaberry And Me
This is the fascinating story of two women, both anthropologists, who worked with Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia one in the 1930s, the other in the...
"A Distant Field of Murder: Western District Frontiers, 1834-1848
"A Distant Field of Murder" tells the story of a frontier - south-western Victoria during the 1830s and 1840s. It describes how one culture, that of the original possessors of...
Arguments about Aborigines: Australia and the Evolution of Social
In the debates which followed the publication of Darwin's book on the origin of species, Australian Aborigines were used as the ideal exemplars of early human forms by European scholars...
Football, Violence and Social Identity
As the 1994 World Cup competition in the USA will again demonstrate soccer is one of the most popular participant and spectator sports around the world. The fortunes of teams...
The Social Paradox: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find
A Next Big Idea Club Must Read of February 2025 "Von Hippel presents a radically new way to understand why human happiness has diminished. What's more, he offers superlative advice...
The Powerless Poor: A Comprehensive Guide To Poverty In Australia
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Author: P.J. HollingworthBinding: HardbackPublished: Stockland Press Pty Ltd, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThe book The Powerless Poor: A Comprehensive Guide To Poverty In Australia presents...
The Ruins Of Time: Four And A Half Centuries Of Conquest And Discovery Among The Maya
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Author: David AdamsonBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical account chronicles the intricate saga of the Maya civilization, tracing four and a half centuries of...
Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years Of Aboriginal History
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Author: Jennifer IsaacsBinding: HardbackPublished: Lansdowne Press, Sydney, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years Of Aboriginal History, chronicles the rich and enduring...
White Man Got No Dreaming: Essays 1938-1973
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Author: W. E. H. StannerBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian National University Press, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis collection, White Man Got No Dreaming: Essays 1938-1973, presents a...
Australian Aboriginal Languages
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Author: Barry J. BlakeBinding: PaperbackPublished: ANGUS & ROBERTSON PUBLISHERS, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, some foxing on blockBarry J. Blake's Australian...
Form In Indigenous Art: Schematisation In The Art Of Aboriginal Australia And Prehistoric Europe
$75.00 AUD
Author: Peter J. UckoBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd, Humanities Press Inc., 1977Condition:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Mild...
‘So Much That Is New’: Baldwin Spencer 1860–1929: A Biography
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Author: D. J. Mulvaney And J. H. CalabyBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press , 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light wear to DJ. Minor denting...
Aboriginal History: Volume 6 (1-2 )
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Author: Barwick, Diane & Urry, James (eds.)Binding: PaperbackPublished: Aboriginal History, Dept of Pacific & Southeast Asian History, Canberra, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown...
Footprints on Malekula: a memoir of Bernard Deacon
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Author: Margaret GardinerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Salamander Press, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsFootprints on Malekula presents a compelling biographical memoir that honors the life and work...
I, The Aboriginal
$15.00 AUD
Author: Douglas LockwoodBinding: PaperbackPublished: Rigby / Seal Books, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles the extraordinary...
Health Business
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Author: Pam Nathan; Dick Leichleitner JapanangkaBinding: PaperbackPublished: Heinemann Educational Australia, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis insightful non-fiction work presents a critical...
The Self-Made Anthropologist: A Life Of A P Elkin
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Author: Tigger WiseBinding: PaperbackPublished: George Allen & Unwin, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minor stains on prelims. This compelling biography, The...
Tylor
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Author: Dr. R. R. MarettBinding: HardbackPublished: Chapman and Hall, 1936Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn and faded DJ....
Man, Land & Myth: In North Australia The Gunwinggu People
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Author: Ronald M. Berndt And Catherine H. BerndtBinding: HardbackPublished: Ure Smith, Sydney, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis anthropological study, Man, Land...
Religion In Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology
$80.00 AUD
Author: Max Charlesworth, Howard Morphy, Diane Bell And Kenneth MaddockBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsReligion In Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology presents a...
The Death And Rebirth Of The Seneca
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Author: Anthony F. C. WallaceBinding: PaperbackPublished: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis seminal work of...
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia And The Birth Of Agriculture
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Author: Bruce PascoeBinding: PaperbackPublished: Magabala Books, 2018Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis groundbreaking work, Dark Emu, challenges conventional understandings of pre-colonial Aboriginal...
Wildbird Dreaming: Aboriginal Art From The Central Deserts Of Australia
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Author: Nadine Amadio and Richard KimberBinding: HardbackPublished: Greenhouse Publications, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light fading to DJ. Minor denting to spine of board. Some tanning...
The Horn Book: Studies In Erotic Folklore And Bibliography
$40.00 AUD
Author: G. LegmanBinding: HardbackPublished: University Books, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Wear, fading and some chipping and rips...
Growing Up The Country: The Pitjantjatjara Struggle For Their Land
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Author: Phillip Toyne & Daniel VachonBinding: PaperbackPublished: McPhee Gribble / Penguin Books, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe compelling historical...
The Sexual Life Of Savages In North-Western Melanesia
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Author: Bronislaw MalinowskiBinding: PaperbackPublished: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Binding cracking. All pages intact.This seminal work of anthropology presents a...
Australian Aboriginal Concepts
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Author: L. R. HiattBinding: PaperbackPublished: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAustralian Aboriginal Concepts, edited...
Outcasts In White Australia
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Author: C.D. RowleyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Pelican Book, 1973Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minimal markings in grey lead. Name penned on...
The Aboriginal Tasmanians
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Author: Lyndall RyanBinding: PaperbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis seminal historical work The Aboriginal Tasmanians meticulously chronicles...
Woman's Role In Aboriginal Society
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Author: Fay GaleBinding: PaperbackPublished: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWoman's Role In Aboriginal Society by Fay Gale...
The Wisdom Of Bones: In Search Of Human Origins
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Author: Alan Walker & Pat ShipmanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling work, The Wisdom Of Bones:...
Structure And Function In Primitive Society: Essays And Addresses
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Author: A. R. Radcliffe-BrownBinding: PaperbackPublished: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis seminal work in social anthropology presents a...
Settle Down Country: Pmere Arlaltyewele
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Author: Pam Nathan, Dick Leichtner JapanangkaBinding: PaperbackPublished: Kibble Books, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis work presents a profound examination...
The Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life
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Author: Emile DurkheimBinding: PaperbackPublished: George Allen & Unwin, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis seminal work in sociology presents a profound analysis...
Primitive Art
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Author: Franz BoasBinding: PaperbackPublished: DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC., 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis seminal work, Primitive Art, presents a groundbreaking anthropological examination...