In the nineteenth century, Australian Aborigines were used by European scholars as an exemplar of early human forms, and have consequently featured as the crucial case study for generations of social theorists and anthropologists. Arguments about Aborigines examines controversial subjects such as family life, religion and ritual, and land rights through the prism of Aboriginal studies. Professor Hiatt's book will provide a valuable introduction to Aboriginal ethnography, and is a shrewd and stimulating history of the central questions in Aboriginal studies.
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"In our native titles era, lawyers, historians and interested non-professionals would find it useful to learn more of anthropologists' intellectual engagements with Aboriginal people over the past century or so. This important book is a good place to start; it is an achievement worthy of a distinguished tribal elder." Bruce Rigsby, Australian Journal of Politics and History
"Reading each of these chapters as separate essays provides one with a brilliant and critical commentary on the history of anthropological thought....Reading the essays in their totality is fascinating. In many ways they read like a mystery of a detective story where the plot is set in the 1850's, subplots and mini-narratives are added on and eventually the 'scientism' of social anthropology displaces the misnomers of the nineteenth century as well as the metaphysics of Aboriginal thought and interpretation." Aram Yengoyan, American Anthropologist
"Reading the essays in their totality is fascinating. In many ways they read like mystery or detective stories in which the plots are set in the 1850's, subplots and mininarratives are added on, and eventually the scientism of social anthropology displaces the misnomers of the 19th century as well as the metaphysics of Aboriginal thought and interpretation. Each chapter drew me intellectually and inquisitively to the ideas and issues espoused prior to 1910." Aram A. Yengoyan, American Anthropologist
"Reading each of these chapters as separate essays provides one with a brilliant and critical commentary on the history of anthropological thought....Reading the essays in their totality is fascinating. In many ways they read like a mystery of a detective story where the plot is set in the 1850's, subplots and mini-narratives are added on and eventually the 'scientism' of social anthropology displaces the misnomers of the nineteenth century as well as the metaphysics of Aboriginal thought and interpretation." Aram Yengoyan, American Anthropologist
"Reading the essays in their totality is fascinating. In many ways they read like mystery or detective stories in which the plots are set in the 1850's, subplots and mininarratives are added on, and eventually the scientism of social anthropology displaces the misnomers of the 19th century as well as the metaphysics of Aboriginal thought and interpretation. Each chapter drew me intellectually and inquisitively to the ideas and issues espoused prior to 1910." Aram A. Yengoyan, American Anthropologist
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Australian Aborigines have been used as the crucial case study of early human forms for generations of social theorists and anthropologists. This text examines controversial subjects such as family life, religion and ritual, and land rights through the prism of aboriginal studies.
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This review is from: Arguments about Aborigines: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology (Hardcover)
At first I felt awe, then dismay, at the amount of literature available on this most-studied culture, the Aborigine of Australia. The culture has been of intense interest since the ealiest days of formal ethnological and anthropological enquiry. Hiatt's book has given me a perspective into the history of scholarly enquiry that informs and conditions my reaction to the work of others. His format is subject-oriented according to his own scholarly interest in the Aborigine but is prefaced in each chapter by a review of the prejudices and aspirations of his predecessors. The book is highly readable and very stimulating. I consider it essential, at the least, to others like myself who have no formal anthropological training but who must discern and rely on the work and opinions of scholars.
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In the autumn of 1768, just after the Endeavour had set out from Plymouth on its voyage of discovery, a London ordnance clerk named Granville Sharp sent a manuscript to the eminent jurist William Blackstone, seeking his opinion on certain arguments relating to the liberty of the person. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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In the autumn of 1768, just after the Endeavour had set out from Plymouth on its voyage of discovery, a London ordnance clerk named Granville Sharp sent a manuscript to the eminent jurist William Blackstone, seeking his opinion on certain arguments relating to the liberty of the person. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kulama ceremony, phantom hordes, female initiand, kin classification, physical paternity, own moiety, classificatory kinship, spirit entry, group marriage, communal marriage, classificatory sisters, primitive marriage, conception beliefs, clan territories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arnhem Land, Rainbow Serpent, Northern Territory, Ethnological Society, New South Wales, Western Australia, Cape York, South Australia, Melville Island, Protection Society, Supreme Being, Western Desert, Anthropological Society, Annette Hamilton, Baldwin Spencer, Black Civilization, Great Britain, High Court, Lloyd Warner, Lord Mayor, Rainbow Snake, Sydney University, Aboriginal Australia, Alice Springs, Granville Sharp New!
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- Kamilaroi And Kurnai by Lorimer Fison on 5 pages
- The Australian Aborigines (The Natural History Library) by Adolphus Peter Elkin on 5 pages
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on 5 pages
- The Native Tribes of South-East Australia by Alfred William Howitt on 4 pages
- Native Tribes of Central Australia by Baldwin and F.J.Gillen Spencer on 4 pages
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- Native Title in Australia: An Ethnographic Perspective by Peter Sutton in Back Matter
- The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism (Politics, History, and Culture) by Elizabeth A. Povinelli in Back Matter
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