Torres Strait Islanders: Custom and Colonialism

by Jeremy Beckett

The Torres Strait Islanders are Australia's 'other' indigenous minority. Their experience of colonialism and their reaction to their position in Australian society provides a striking counterpoint to that of the Aborigines. The author applies many years of study and work among the Torres Strait Islanders to provide a new account of their changing world in the islands and their changing role in Australia. A Melanesian people, the Torres Strait Islanders'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521378621
• ISBN13: 9780521378628
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"