The clouded leopard: travels to landscapes of spirit and desire
by Davis, Wade
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"From their earliest encounters with indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be, racially, almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In P…
A huge national bestseller--soon to be a major motion picture from United Artists--this is the sensational story of an American woman who accompanies a remote tribe of aboriginal people on a four-month "walkabout" through the Australian Outback, a region that has remained virtua…
This collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with the Warlpiri people of Australia since 1979. Inspired by the art and struggles of different Indigenous people and other discriminated groups, especially wom…
A collection of essays from Barbara Glowczewski's 40 years of research with Aboriginal Australians in conversation with 20th-century philosophy This collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with the Warlpiri…
This diverse collection of essays examines important issues related to mental health among Pacific Islanders through the topics of identity, spirituality, the unconscious, mental trauma, and healing. Contributors: Emeline Afeaki-Mafile'o, Margaret Nelson Agee, Siautu Alefaio, A.…
Case study of a pseudonymously named community; describes social organization of drinking business, rules and etiquette; survey of alcohol related injuries, illness, morbidity, evacuation to hospital, income, expenditure and quantity obtained.
A Matter of life and death: contemporary Aboriginal mortality : proceedings o…
by Gray, Alan, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (Australia), Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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