James Dawson: Australian Aborigines

Cover: 9781108006552 | Australian Aborigines | James Dawson | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2009

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Beschreibung

James Dawson first published Australian Aborigines in 1881, after deciding that his careful description of the tribes, languages, customs, and characteristics of the indigenous peoples of the western district of Victoria was too bulky for its originally intended publication in a newspaper. Essentially a field-inspired anthropological account of the dwindling Aboriginal population, written before the emergence of anthropology as a formal discipline, Dawson's book draws on his daughter's ability to speak the local languages and attempts a balanced description of a culture he considered ill-used and under-appreciated by white settlers. Minute details about clothing, tools, settlement and beliefs combine to depict a complex society that possessed highly ritualised customs deserving of respect. Dawson also included an extensive vocabulary of words in three indigenous languages that he hoped would facilitate further cross-cultural understanding. His work provides valuable source material for modern researchers in anthropology and linguistics.

Über den Autor

Jim Dawson's newspaper career spanned 44 years, 35 of them as a sports writer, editor and columnist. He worked for six newspapers and one university, starting as a 17-year-old police reporter and ending as publisher of 10 weekly newspapers. He chronicled many of the famous athletes and coaches of his day in his autobiographical book "Life in the Toy Department and other splendiferous places," published in 2017. He was diagnosed with End Stage Renal Disease in 2019.

"I hadn't written anything except 'Toy Department' for 25 years," he said, "but kidney disease was a wake-up call. I started peritoneal dialysis and discovered that I wasn't quite used up, so began writing short stories and a little poetry. "

Jim is 86 years old, He and his wife Barbara live in a senior community in Rocklin, California.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Introductory note; 1. Tribes; 2. Population; 3. Chiefs; 4. Property; 5. Clothing; 6. Habitations; 7. Cleanliness; 8. Domestic furniture; 9. Cooking and food; 10. Tools; 11. Laws of marriage; 12. Children; 13. Names of persons; 14. Superstitions and diseases; 15. Death and burial; 16. Avenging of death; 17. Great meetings; 18. Amusements; 19. Weapons; 20. Animals; 21. Meteorology; 22. Native mounds; 23. Anecdotes; Conveyance; Vocabularies; Notes.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781108006552
ISBN-10:	1108006558
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Dawson, James
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	244 x 170 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	James Dawson
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.09.2009
Gewicht:	0,422 kg