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James Bonwick (1817-1906) arrived in Tasmania, then Van Diemen's
Land, in 1841, beginning an unstable and itinerant career as
school-master, writer, and archivist. A zealous non-conformist and
mystic, who was briefly in contact with Madame Blavatsky, Bonwick
became interested in the plight of the Tasmanian aborigines after a
visit to Flinders Island, to which the last of the nearly extinct
population had been removed. Published in 1870, by which time
Bonwick had become a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, this
book is a sympathetic anthropological study of indigenous Tasmanian
culture and society, based on colonial records, interviews with
early settlers and Bonwick's own experiences. The companion volume
to The Last of the Tasmanians, which discussed the reasons for the
extinction and was cited by Darwin in The Descent of Man, it
provides important source material, as well as insight into the
morally difficult subject of nineteenth-century anthropology.
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