The Booandik Tribe Of South Australian Aborigines: A Sketch Of Their Habits, Customs, Legends, And Language
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: Facsimile Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Alan Marshall's copy.
A foundational work of nineteenth-century ethnography, The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: A Sketch of Their Habits, Customs, Legends, and Language chronicles the lifeways of the Buandig people of southeastern South Australia through the firsthand observations of a settler woman who lived among them. Mrs. James Smith presents a detailed account of the tribe's daily habits, social customs, spiritual beliefs, and oral traditions, offering one of the earliest sustained records of this Aboriginal community. The tone is earnest and documentary, reflecting the Victorian impulse to record and classify, while the author's proximity to her subjects lends the work an intimacy rarely found in purely academic treatments of the era. Particularly valuable are the transcriptions of legends and linguistic data, which preserve aspects of Buandig culture that may otherwise have been lost to history. Scholars of Australian Indigenous studies, colonial history, and comparative linguistics will find this volume an indispensable primary source.
Author: Mrs. James Smith
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Libraries Board of South Australia
Genre: Anthropology
Edition: Facsimile Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Alan Marshall's copy.
A foundational work of nineteenth-century ethnography, The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: A Sketch of Their Habits, Customs, Legends, and Language chronicles the lifeways of the Buandig people of southeastern South Australia through the firsthand observations of a settler woman who lived among them. Mrs. James Smith presents a detailed account of the tribe's daily habits, social customs, spiritual beliefs, and oral traditions, offering one of the earliest sustained records of this Aboriginal community. The tone is earnest and documentary, reflecting the Victorian impulse to record and classify, while the author's proximity to her subjects lends the work an intimacy rarely found in purely academic treatments of the era. Particularly valuable are the transcriptions of legends and linguistic data, which preserve aspects of Buandig culture that may otherwise have been lost to history. Scholars of Australian Indigenous studies, colonial history, and comparative linguistics will find this volume an indispensable primary source.