Aborigines of Tasmania

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-108-00664-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics

First published in 1890 in a run of just 200 copies, anthropologist Henry Ling Roth's The Aborigines of Tasmania provides a comprehensive account of native Tasmanians' life and culture. Roth, writing in the wake of the Tasmanian Aborigines' extinction, produces 'an approach to absolute completeness' that relies on the accounts of the explorers, colonisers, and anthropologists who preceded him. His work covers an exhaustive range of detail, from the Tasmanians' mannerisms to their psychology, origin, and language. Compiling his predecessors' observations and arguments, Roth often sets opinions in opposition to highlight the lack of consensus amongst those who encountered the Tasmanians. Roth's book is additionally valuable for the 'vocabularies' included in his appendices. The 1899 edition (225 copies) revises and expands the first, adding photographs to the first edition's illustrations as well as new appendices. It made an innovative and lasting contribution to an established research tradition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roth, Henry Ling

Butler, Marion E.

Backhouse Walker, James

Garson, J. G.

Tylor, Edward B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Form and size; 3. Psychology; 4. War; 5. Fire; 6. Nomadic life; 7. Method of wearing hair; 8. Astronomy; 9. String; 10. Trade; 11. Infanticide; 12. Language; 13. Osteology; 14. Origin; Appendices; Index.