Ebook: Social anthropology and Australian aboriginal studies: a contemporary overview

This volume summaries major developments in the social anthropology of Aboriginal studies in the 1960s-80s. It is valuable as an overview of five important and interrelated topics; economy, kinship, gender, religion and law. It also contains stimulating comment and criticism and raised important issues for future research as well as current debate in Aboriginal studies.;Preliminaries; Contents; A contemporary overview; Gender in Aboriginal social life: A review; Twenty-five years of Aboriginal kinship studies; The resurrection of the Hydra; Taking stock and looking forward.