The Lardil, an Australian Aboriginal tribe, have a rich and complex cognitive culture and are native speakers of three different languages, each used for separate occasions. McKnight examines their systems of classifying the world, and creates the first inventory of the cognitive aspects of an Aboriginal tribe's social structures (including kinship, myth, and ritual).
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"The anthropological literature contains no overall inventory for any aboriginal cultural group. McKnight's monograph is the first work that covers everything...The scholarship is very high...In style, the writing is carefully crafted, sentence by sentence; it is personal and unassuming, with frank discussions of shortcomings in data....McKnight's book will live on as a classic long after more jargon-filled monographs have lost their usefulness."--Language in Society
"...a watershed in the anthropology of the Australian Aborigines....Mcknight, by virtue of very long residence on on the islands, [has] been able to achieve a new kind of synthesis by bringing together Aboriginal classifications of people, of the land, of the natural environment, and their conceptions of the cosmos....[The book's] quality, volume, care and detail adds a special authority to his discussion of classic theoretical debates, old and new....Altogether a master-work."--Oceania
"...a watershed in the anthropology of the Australian Aborigines....Mcknight, by virtue of very long residence on on the islands, [has] been able to achieve a new kind of synthesis by bringing together Aboriginal classifications of people, of the land, of the natural environment, and their conceptions of the cosmos....[The book's] quality, volume, care and detail adds a special authority to his discussion of classic theoretical debates, old and new....Altogether a master-work."--Oceania
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David McKnight, Professor of Anthropology and Political Science, London School of Economics.
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