Kimberley People: Stone Age Bushmen of Today by J R B Love

Book Description

Secondhand. Near fine condition.

James Robert Beattie Love (1889-1947), a clergyman and missionary, lived and worked with northern Kimberley Aborigines from 1914-1915 and 1927-1940, earning their friendship and learning their language and customs.

This book includes his 1936 text (first published as Stone-Age Bushmen of To-Day; Life and Adventure Among a Tribe of Savages in North-Western Australia) and previously unpublished photographs, combined with other photographs and information from a number of sources.

Love's book describes traditional Kimberley Aboriginal everyday life, including social organisation, kinship systems, belief in child-spirits, rituals, naming people, hunting and food gathering, fire-making, housing, language, warfare, murder, punishment, medicine, ageing, death and funeral practices, infanticide, polygamy, domestic violence, wife-lending, euthanasia, and cannibalism.

Part of the Australian Aboriginal Culture Series No. 6

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers, please note that this book may contain descriptions and/or images of people who have passed away.