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Arguments about Aborigines - Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology (Hardcover, New)
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Arguments about Aborigines - Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology (Hardcover, New)
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The emergence of anthropology in Britain coincided with the
publication of Darwin's book on the origin of species. In the
context of inescapable questions about the natural history of our
own species, Australian Aborigines were assigned the role of
exemplars par excellence of beginnings and early human forms. In
the last quarter of the nineteenth century, European scholars bent
on discovering the origins of social institutions began a rush on
the Australian material that lasted well into the present century.
The Aborigines have consequently featured as a crucial case-study
for generations of social theorists, including Tylor, Frazer,
Durkheim and Freud. Arguments about Aborigines reviews a range of
controversies (some still alive) that played an important role in
the formative period of British social anthropology. The chapters
cover family life, male/female relationships, conception beliefs,
the mother-in-law taboo, various aspects of religion and ritual,
political organization, and land rights: all subjects that have
been matters of lively interest and long-running research. Along
the way, the study traces changes in Aboriginal circumstances and
practices and notes the ways in which these changes affected the
scholarly debate.
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