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Arguments about Aborigines

Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology

By: L. R. Hiatt

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Paperback | 26 August 1996

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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 bent on discovering the origins of social institutions. The Aborigines have consequently featured as the crucial case-study for generations of social theorists, including Tylor, Frazer, Durkheim and Freud. Arguments about Aborigines reviews a range of controversies such as family life, religion and ritual, and land rights, which marked the formative period of British social anthropology. Professor Hiatt also examines how changes in Aboriginal practices have affected scholarly debate. This elegant book will provide a valuable introduction to aboriginal ethnography for students, scholars and the general reader. It is also a shrewd and stimulating history of the great debates of anthropology, seen through the prism of Aboriginal studies.

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'... handsome and elegantly written book ... L. R. Hiatt leads us with a sure hand and dry humour through this personal selection of Arguments about Aborigines.' Ian Keen, Times Literary Supplement

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Published: 26th August 1996

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List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Real estates and phantom hordes
Group marriage
The woman question
People without politics
High gods
Conception and misconception
Dangerous mothers-in-law and disfigured sisters
Initiation: the case of the cheeky yam
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
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Arguments about Aborigines

Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology

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