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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 December 2011
      02 December 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511695223
      9781108006569
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511695223
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      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.91kg, 576 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Linguistic Anthropology, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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    Subjects:
    Linguistic Anthropology, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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    Robert Brough Smyth (1830–1889) was a successful Melbourne-based mining engineer and civil servant whose international contacts included the geologist Adam Sedgwick. He also spent 16 years as Secretary of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines. In this study of the society and customs of indigenous Australians in the Victoria region, first published in 1878, he combines his own observations with those of others who lived or worked closely with the Aboriginal population. Volume 1 discusses the Aborigines' physical and mental characteristics, demographics, social interaction, rituals, daily life and mythology. Comparisons are made throughout with other indigenous populations, particularly those of nearby Pacific and Indonesian islands. Illustrated throughout, the book takes into account the changes forced on the native population by the arrival of European settlers in the late eighteenth century and preserves much information that might otherwise have been lost.

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