Author: Adolphus Peter Elkin
Publisher: [Sydney] : Angus and Robertson, [1964, reprinted 1966]
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13:
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Physical appearance, racial type, pattern of settlement, economy, population (1788), tribal unit, territory, spirit beliefs, food gathering, weapons, social organization & kinship, clans & totemism, ancestral spirits, initiation, black magic & medicine man - causes of illness & death, initiation of medicine man, art, music & dance - style of dancing, body painting, role of songman, sound instruments, rock art, regional cultures - variation in religion (eastern sky hero beliefs, circumcision, platform burial, Arnhem Land fertility mother), Aborigines since 1788, settlement of land, diet, disease, employment, population decline, government policy, citizenship rights, integration vs. assimilation.