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Spencer's Last Journey
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Native Tribes of Central Australia
A pioneering and influential ethnography of Central Australian Aboriginal tribal customs and social structures, first published in 1899.
"My Dear Spencer"
The extraordinary collection of letters has remained unpublished for nearly a century.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.
Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia
The first ethnographic survey of thirteen tribes from the Northern Territories of Australia, first published in 1914.
Across Australia
Eminent biologist Sir Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929) was born in Lancashire but moved to Australia to take up the chair in biology at the University of Melbourne in 1887. As a member of the 1894 Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia, Spencer made the acquaintance of F. J. Gillen, an advocate of Aboriginal rights, with whom he later formed a working partnership. Spencer and Gillen returned to Alice Springs in Central Australia in 1896-1897, to carry out observations on the local Aboriginal tribe, the Arunta. These observations were published in 1899, in The Native Tribes of Central Australia (also reissued in this series), which represented the most comprehensive study of Aboriginal customs. Gillen and Spencer continued to undertake fieldwork until 1903. Volume 2 of Across Australia (published in two volumes in 1912) describes Aboriginal tribes of the present-day Northern Territory, between Alice Springs and the Gulf of Carpentaria.
The Arunta
V.2; Making & powers of medicine men; various forms of magic - pointing sticks & bones, charming a spear, singing a wound, magical charms, cures, love magic; spirit beliefs, names given to spirits & spirit individuals, reincarnation, death, burial & mourning ceremonies, customs; the Atninga or avenging party, etiquette shown, blood letting, description of killing the man - return of the party; customs of kurdaitcha and Illapurinja, notes on kurdaitcha shoes, the making of a kurdaitcha man, ceremony, female kurdaitcha called Illapurinja, special object being to kill a woman who has not mourned properly on the death of a daughter; methods of obtaining wives - charming by magic, capture, elopem...
The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer
In 1894 Spencer was appointed as biologist and photographer for the Horn Expedition, the first scientific expedition to Central Australia. In 1901, he and Frank Gillen set off from Oodnadatta to Borroloola and took an amazing 500 glass-plate photographs, 3,000 feet of moving film and recordings of Aboriginal songs on wax cylinder phonograph. The Baldwin Spencer photographic archive is now regarded as one of the earliest and most significant ethnographic records of Aboriginal life in Australia. This extraordinary collection recorded with compassion and beauty the day-to-day lives of Aboriginal people and their cultural traditions and was to be one of the first major template for European Aust...
Eaglehawk and crow a study of the Australian aborigines including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages
Theories of origin, Mainland & Tasmanian Aborigines, Papuan, Malay & Dravidian immigration, physical comparisons, extra & intra-Australian; origin legends - Murray River, Gippsland, Narrinyeri; eaglehawk & crow classes, associated mythology upper Murray, Darling River, Maneroo, Dippil, Meenung, Brisbane River; brief outline of class systems Gippsland, Narrinyeri, Kabi; comparison of Australian and Tasmanian implements, dwellings, customs (corroborees, initiation, firemaking, cannibalism); language evidence, tables of 21 words, English - Tasmanian - Australian (selected dialects), tables of 36 words, English - Tasmanian Victorian; Chap.3; The Dravidian element, resemblances in kinship, lingui...
