Southern anthropology : a history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai /: a history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Helen Gardner, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Australia, and Patrick McConvell, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University.
• Authors: Gardner, Helen Bethea, 1959-; McConvell, Patrick
• Contents: Part I. Southern Anthropology. 1. Introduction: The publication of Kamilaroi and Kurnai ; 2. Morgan : imagining kinship ; 3. The unity of world kinship : a southern perspective -- Part II. Finding Kin : Fison in the Antipodes. 4. The apocalypse in the south : Fison in Victoria and Fiji ; 5. Twice converted : Fison's epiphany ; 6. Cracks in the theory : the problems of the Pacific ; 7. Fison's Fiji discovery and the interpretation of kinship history -- Part III. Kin and Skin. 8. Seeing Gamilaraay ; 9. Evidence and anomalies from Australian and Pacific sites ; 10. Howitt and Tulaba ; 11. The turn from kin to skin -- Part IV. From Encounter to Page : The Writing of Kamilaroi and Kurnai. 12. Time, human difference and evolution in Oceania ; 13. Pen to paper : writing Kamilaroi and Kurnai ; 14. Kamilaroi and Kurnai : the content and the form ; 15. The anthropology of kinship in Kamilaroi and Kurnai -- Part V. The Reception and Legacy of Kamilaroi and Kurnai. 16. The British response to Kamilaroi and Kurnai ; 17. The legacy of Kamilaroi and Kurnai in the anthropology of kinship ; 18. Conclusion: Southern anthropology.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 301/.099; Social History; Anthropology -- Pacific Area -- History -- 19th century; Anthropology -- Australia -- History -- 19th century; Civilization; Modern/19th Century; Anthropology/General; Social & cultural history; Social & cultural anthropology; Australasian & Pacific history; Anthropology; Pacific Area -- History; Australia -- Historiography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137463821; 1137463821
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.