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Arguments about Aborigines examines controversial subjects such as family life, religion and ritual, and land rights through the prism of Aboriginal studies. Professor Hiatt's 1996 book provides a valuable introduction to Aboriginal ethnography, and is a stimulating history of the central questions in 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, The Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Prologue; 2. Real estates and phantom hordes; 3. Group marriage; 4. The woman question; 5. People without politics; 6. High gods; 7. Conception and misconception; 8. Dangerous mothers-in-law and disfigured sisters; 9. Initiation: the case of the cheeky yam; 10. Epilogue; Notes; References; Index.

Arguments about Aborigines

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 27 June 1996
      ISBN-13 9780521566193
      978-0521566193
      ISBN-10 0521566193
      Also in:
      Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Arguments about Aborigines examines controversial subjects such as family life, religion and ritual, and land rights through the prism of Aboriginal studies. Professor Hiatt's 1996 book provides a valuable introduction to Aboriginal ethnography, and is a stimulating history of the central questions in Aboriginal studies.

      Trade Review

      '… 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, The Times Literary Supplement

      Table of Contents

      List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Prologue; 2. Real estates and phantom hordes; 3. Group marriage; 4. The woman question; 5. People without politics; 6. High gods; 7. Conception and misconception; 8. Dangerous mothers-in-law and disfigured sisters; 9. Initiation: the case of the cheeky yam; 10. Epilogue; Notes; References; Index.

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