Aborigines of the West: Their Past and Their Present: Sesquicentenary Celebrations Series edited by Ronald M Berndt and Catherine H Berndt

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective covering. Stamps and stickers on inside pages. Front and back pages are partially torn from the spine. Exposure to moisture has ruffled some pages and left a stain on foredge. Some marks on top foredge. All pages are separated. Some pages have pencil underlining and annotation. Wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket is enclosed in protective covering but wobbled. A research rather than a collectable copy.

The 39 chapters in this book all emphasise the importance of understanding the background of traditional Aboriginal life, the problems that have confronted Aboriginal Australians in the past and those that they faced in the second half of the 20th Century. The themes underline the persistence of Aboriginality and the social and personal value of Aboriginal identity as a necessary ingredient to survival. (back cover)

Papers by K Akerman, C H Berndt, R M Berndt, W J K Christensen, K Colbung, I M Crawford, J Davis, W H Douglas, A P Elkin, D A Gray, M C George, R K Green, M C Howard, S Kaldor, I Malcolm, E Kolig, T J N Long, R McKeich, R F Morland, K R McKelson, C F Makin, S J Meagher, W D L Ride, C D Metcalfe, C F Mounsey, M L OBrien, H Petri, M V Robinson, B C Shaw, J L Sherwood, J E Stanton, R Tonkinson, K C Truscott, E G Vaszolyi, J M Wilson, M J Winch, S T Woenne, B J Wright, separately annotated.