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Publisher | Oxford University Press ANZ |
Author(s) | Ian Keen |
Subtitle | At the Threshold of Colonisation |
Published | 20th November 2003 |
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At the Threshold of Colonisation
Aboriginal Economy and Society compares and contrasts aspects of Aboriginal economy and society across seven different regions, from the southwest of Western Australia to the tip of Cape York. The book reconstructs and explores the relationships between environment, technologies, economy and society in these regions as they were at ‘the threshold of European colonisation’. Discussion is developed in a number of traditional areas of focus and debate within the discipline of social and cultural anthropology. These include the relationship between environment and culture, the construction of group and individual identity, kinship and marriage, cosmology, governance, and the control and organisation of production, distribution and exchange.