Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on PensionsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Stephen Gillen. January 30, 1906. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on PensionsPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Stephen Tichner. January 11, 1906. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public LandsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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The Journeyman Barber
Author: Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays
Author: Bronislaw MalinowskiPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473393124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This vintage book comprises three famous Malinowski essays on the subject of religion. Malinowski is one of the most important and influential anthropologists of all time. He is particularly renowned for his ability to combine the reality of human experience, with the cold calculations of science. An important collection of three of his most famous essays, "Magic, Science and Religion" provides its reader with a series of concepts concerning religion, magic, science, rite and myth. This is undertaken in an attempt to form a definite impression and understanding of the Trobrianders of New Guinea. The chapters of this book include: "Magic, Science and Religion", "Primitive Man and his Religion", "Rational Mastery by Man of his Surroundings", "Faith and Cult", "The Creative Acts of Religion", "Providence in Primitive Life", "Man's Selective Interest in Nature", etcetera. This book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Alaska Railroad Record
Author: From the Frontier
Author: John MulvaneyPublisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741153867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This is the story of three men and three frontiers. In the nineteenth century the centre of the continent was, to white Australians, a vast forbidding emptiness. The completion of the Overland Telegraph Line in the 1870s brought with it a new knowledge of the area, as well as a number of intruders to a landscape familiar to Aboriginal people for thirty millennia. Among the newcomers were a policeman, Ernest Cowle, and a telegraph official, Paddy Byrne, living in frontier settlements hundreds of kilometres from the nearest Europeans. From 1894 to 1925, Cowle and Byrne wrote letters to pioneering anthropologist and biologist, Baldwin Spencer, whom they had met during the 1894 Horn Scientific Expedition to central Australia. Neither expected their letters to be read by any person other than Spencer, and both made observations which they would never voice to each other. Yet through their letters, and the Spencer and Gillen books, they became linked to such giants of intellectual history as James Frazer, Emile Durkheim and Sigmund Freud. And both became figures, however minute, on the frontier of discovery, of new ways of looking at human experience in all its diversity. The subjects of their letters were the Aboriginal people, the landscape in which they lived and the unusual flora and fauna of their habitat. These earthy and thoughtful men offered an extended report from the frontier of the relations between white and black Australians, a place then characterised by mutual incomprehension, outbreaks of violence and the vast distance between two seemingly incompatible ways of responding to an extreme environment. A moment in time, a place on the edge, two men writing to a third; From the Frontier combines local history, race relations and scientific discovery, and enters a place whose very strangeness tells us much about our past-and our present.
Paddy Cahill of Oenpelli
Author: D. J. MulvaneyPublisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN: 0855755202
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Winner of the 2005 Northern Territory Chief Minister's History Award. A sometimes contentious figure in Australia, Paddy Cahill is revealed through his lively collection of letters to Sir Baldwin Spencer and others. A one-time buffalo hunter, Cahill spent years farming on his Oenpelli property where he experimented with dairy cattle, growing fruit and vegetables while paying the Aboriginal workers who helped run the property.
The City Record
Author: "My Dear Spencer"
Author: Francis James GillenPublisher: Hyland House Publishing
ISBN: 9781864470222
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The extraordinary collection of letters has remained unpublished for nearly a century. It sheds vivid light on race relations, social conditions and Aboriginal culture in Central Australia, It also documents a crucial and poorly understood period in the history of anthropology. The book makes an invaluable contribution to the understanding of central Australian Aboriginal society, and to current debates concerning land rights.
The City Record
Author: New York (N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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