Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land, 1st Edition
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- Paperback
245 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2005
Summary
I had lived and hunted with these people, accompanied them on their nomadic wanderings and learned their customs and their languages with the result that I understood and believed in them and resented the injustices under which they had suffered for so long at the hands of the white man and other invaders of their territory.’ In 1932 33, Yolngu people living in the Caledon Bay area of north-east Arnhem Land were involved in the killing of five Japanese fishermen and three Europeans. A punitiv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522852059 |
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| ISBN-10: | 052285205X |
| Author: | Donald Thomson |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University |
| Imprint: | The Miegunyah Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 245 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 175mm x 244mm |
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About The Author
Donald Thomson
Donald Thomson was a professor of anthropology at the University of Melbourne. He led expeditions to Cape York in 1928, 1929 and 1932, and to Arnhem Land in 1935. He won the Wellcome Gold Medal, the Peek Grant RGS, and the patron’s Medal RGS and was the only anthropologist ever to be awarded the Royal Medal. Nicholas Peterson is a professor of anthropology at the Australian National University. He has contributed to Aboriginal Land Rights: A Hand Book and Aborigines, Land and Land Rights.
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