TY - BOOK ID - 85467346 TI - The Native Tribes of South-East Australia PY - 1904 SN - 0511695179 1108006329 PB - Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Aboriginal Australians KW - Gender & Ethnic Studies KW - Social Sciences KW - Ethnic & Race Studies KW - Aboriginals, Australian KW - Aborigines, Australian KW - Australian aboriginal people KW - Australian aboriginals KW - Australian aborigines KW - Australians, Aboriginal KW - Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) KW - Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) KW - Ethnology KW - Indigenous peoples KW - History KW - Social life and customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85467346 AB - A. W. Howitt's classic two-volume study, first published in 1904, investigates the organisation, practices and customs of the indigenous peoples he encountered during his forty years exploring Australia. He describes how he made 'close and friendly contact' with tribes who were, in his words, in a condition of 'complete savagery'. Howitt achieved considerable status among the Aborigines, and was even permitted to witness some of their sacred ceremonies. Focusing particularly on the social organisation of the tribes, their kinship systems and marriage rules, his book is a captivating account of a now-vanished civilisation. ER -