<p>First published in 1964 and this fifth edition published in 1988, The World of the First Australians is a classic in the field of Australian Aboriginal Studies. As well as being a comprehensive reference book, covering a wide range of the many traditional societies and cultures that have existed on the Australian continent, it draws together the threads of Aboriginal belief and practice in general terms. This book brings together some of the material from over 40 years of the authors' anthropological research and fieldwork among Aborigines in many parts of Australia, supplemented with comprehensive statements from other sources. It concentrates on the past and present traditional life of Aboriginal Australians, and the tremendous changes that have overtaken them. The authors cover aspects such as social organisation, economic adaptation, relationship to land an dits resources, growing up and getting married, religious belief, myth and ritual, forms of sorcery and magic, law and order, oral literature and visual art.</p>

The World of the First Australians: Aboriginal Traditional Life : Past and Present

Politics & Social Sciences

Berndt, Ronald M.

Berndt, Catherine Helen

Social Sciences

Aboriginal Studies Pr

In 1976, Layton was engaged to record local traditions and engage in research to help document the Aboriginal claims to the land. Much of the material was collected in the field from 1977 to 1979, and part is taken from evidence at the hearing for the land claim in April and May 1979. He looks at pre-contact traditions, conflict and change, and land rights. The volume is 10 3/4

Uluru: An Aboriginal History of Ayers Rock

Layton, Robert

Anthropology

Growing Up Walgett: Young Members of the Walgett Aboriginal Community

History

Australia & Oceania

The Legend of the Seven Sisters

O'Brien, May

Children's Books

<p>A facsimile edition of a classic anthropological work as it was published in 1904.</p>

The Native Tribes of South-East Australia

Howitt, Alfred William

I'm The One That Know This Country: The Story Of Jessie Lennon And Coober Pedy

Jessie Lennon

The title Bringing to Light has two meanings. First, this book is an act of bringing to light a history that was gradually becoming mythologized, in part because the ethnographic films of the past are now rarely seen. Secondly, much of the filmmaking discussed in this book was motivated by a desire to bring to the light of film the socio-cultural life of Australia's Indigenous peoples.

Bringing to Light: A History of Ethnographic Filmmaking at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Bryson, Ian

This book outlines the evolution of native title in Australia in case commentaries beginning with Mabo v. Queensland in 1992, which upheld the Meriam people's rights to land under their own law. Strelein considers primarily the theoretical foundations of native title and the development of the courts' thinking on the subject up to the High Court decisions in 2002 in Western Australia v. Ward and Yorta Yorta. Each chapter is an analysis of cases during this period, concluding with an overview chapter of native title as a legal concept, its fundamental themes, and contradictions regarding the law. Many of the commentaries were published in the AIATSIS native title Issues Papers and Newsletters, and have been revised and/or combined with new material here. Strelein is the manager and research fellow of the Native Title Research Unit, AIATSIS, in Australia. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Compromised Jurisprudence: Native Title Cases Since Mabo

Strelein, Lisa

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