Research Catalog
- Title
- Australia revisited. The aborigine story from stone age to space age, by Frederick Rose.
- Author
- Rose, Frederick G. G.
- Publication
- Berlin, Seven Seas Publishers (1968).
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- Description
- 277 p. several l. of illus., map.; 19 cm.
- Summary
- Popularly written; Chap. 7; Groote Eylandt - method of constructing Malay type canoe, Fred Grays settlement, changes in Aboriginal way of life over the years, effects of manganese mining project; Chap. 8; Varieties of foods, division of labour, eleven local groups on Groote, family structure; Chap. 9-10; Central Australia 1962, authors experiences at Angas Downs, sociological data collected, camp life on station, tourist trade; Kangaroo ritual witnessed, type of cargo-cult belief building up around Angas Downs; functions of missions.
- Series Statement
- Seven seas books
- Uniform Title
- Seven Seas books
- Subject
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part I: Perspectives: political and personal -- 1. United States -- Australia -- 2. Convicts, sheep and fossikers -- 3. The Australian tropics -- 4. The dock and the wharf -- 5. 1962 -- 6. 1965 -- Part II: Aborigines: tribal, transitions and today -- 7. Groote Eylandt -- 8. Their tribal society -- 9. Central Australia, 1962 -- 10. Angas Downs -- 11. Money -- then and now -- 12. 1965.
- LCCN
- ^^^76392409^//r90
- OCLC
- 18268
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library