Arguments about Aborigines: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology

by L.R. Hiatt

Book Overview

In the debates which followed the publication of Darwin's book on the origin of species, Australian Aborigines were used as the ideal exemplars of early human forms by European scholars bent on discovering the origins of social institutions. The Aborigines have consequently featured as the crucial case-study for generations of social theorists, including Tylor, Frazer, Durkheim and Freud. Arguments about Aborigines reviews a range of controversies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521566193
• ISBN13: 9780521566193
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"