Going the Whiteman’s Way Kinship and Marriage among Australian Aborigines Signed by the author with gift-inscription to Frank Thompson

McKnight, David

$95.00

Publisher: Ashgate
Place Published: Aldershot
Edition: Signed 1st Edition
Date Published: 2004
Size: 8vo

Study of kinship and marriage among Indigenous Australians, discussing Paternal and Maternal relations, Affinal relations, Classes and Totems, etc; b&w text figures; a volume in the ‘Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific’ series; from the library of Frank Thompson, signed by Thompson and with a gift-inscription from the author; Frank Thompson is a legendary figure in Australian publishing, for his career at the University of Queensland Press, which he transformed from an academic press to a publisher of poetry and literature, publishing first poetry collections of David Malouf and Michael Dransfield, amongst others; text block foxed, mild foxing to endpapers and prelims, o.w. Very Good.

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