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  3. The Native Tribes of South-East Australia
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 September 2011
      25 November 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511695179
      9781108006323
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511695179
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.1kg, 878 Pages
      • Subjects:
      English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, Anthropological Theory
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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    Subjects:
    English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, Anthropological Theory
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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    A. W. Howitt's classic two-volume study, first published in 1904, investigates the organisation, practices and customs of the indigenous peoples he encountered during his forty years exploring Australia. He describes how he made 'close and friendly contact' with tribes who were, in his words, in a condition of 'complete savagery'. Howitt achieved considerable status among the Aborigines, and was even permitted to witness some of their sacred ceremonies. Focusing particularly on the social organisation of the tribes, their kinship systems and marriage rules, his book is a captivating account of a now-vanished civilisation.

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