Culture in translation : the anthropological legacy of R.H. Mathews /

"Almost 90 years on from his death, this is the first book-length collection of the writings of Robert Hamilton Mathews. It has been a long wait for the Australian-born surveyor who began his career as an anthropologist at the age of 52 with the 1893 publication of a brief paper on New South Wa...

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Main Author: Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton), 1841-1918
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Thomas, Martin Edward
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2007.
Series:Aboriginal history monograph series ; no. 15.
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505 0 0 |t Introducing R.H. Mathews.  |t 'Birrarak is the name given to me by the natives' --  |g Part 1:  |t Rock Art and Daily Life.  |t Contributions to the Ethnography of the Australians --  |t Rock Carvings and Paintings by the Australian Aborigines --  |t Plan of some Drawings carved or painted on Rock by the Natives of New South Wales, Australia --  |g Part 2:  |t Kinship and Marriage.  |t Social Organisation of Some Australian Tribes --  |t Remarks on the Natives of Australia --  |t The Natives of Australia --  |g Part 3:  |t Mythology.  |t Some Mythology of the Gundungurra Tribe, New South Wales --  |t A Giant in a Cave--An Australian Legend --  |t Australian Folk-Tales --  |t The Wareengarry and Karambal --  |t The Hereafter --  |g Part 4:  |t Language.  |t The Wailwan Language --  |t Language of the Kurnu Tribe, New South Wales --  |g Part 5:  |t Ceremony.  |t The Mŭltyerra Initiation Ceremony --  |t Initiation Ceremony of the Birdhawal Tribe --  |t The Bundandaba Ceremony of Initiation in Queensland --  |g Part 6:  |t Correspondence.  |t Letters to E.S. Hartland --  |t Letters to R.H. Mathews --  |t Letter to Moritz von Leonhardi --  |t RHM Bibliography. 
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