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The white men : the first response of aboriginal peoples to the white man / Julia Blackburn ; foreword by Edmund Carpenter.

Title
The white men : the first response of aboriginal peoples to the white man / Julia Blackburn ; foreword by Edmund Carpenter.
Author
Blackburn, Julia
Publication
London : Orbis Publishing, 1979.

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Description
192 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
Summary
World wide scope, with Australian examples drawn from myths and oral histories of Booandik, Gunwinggu, . Murngin and Daly River Mission people and from the rock paintings of the Wellington Ranges (Arnhem Land) and Quinkan Cave.
Subject
  • First contact (Anthropology)
  • Africa > History
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 190.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword -- Introduction -- The white men arrive -- White man's secrets -- The races of man -- The land of the dead -- The aftermath.
ISBN
085613399X :
OCLC
  • 6183669
  • SCSB-10388119
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library