Walter Edmund Roth

Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines

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Produktbeschreibung

Roth provides a detailed and fascinating account of the language, life and culture of the Aborigines among whom he lived.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781108006170
• ISBN-10: 1108006175
• Artikelnr.: 30979312

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Bibliography
1. The spoken language of the Pitta-Pitta aboriginals
2. Tabular comparison between various selected words
3. Social and individual nomenclature
4. The expression of ideas by manual signs
5. The search for food
6. Domestic implements and utensils
7. Personal ornamentation and decoration
8. Recreation
9. Travel, trade and barter
10. The maintenance of law and order
11. Disease, accident, death
12. Rain-making
13. Ethno-pornography
Index and glossary.