The Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians

By:

James Bonwick

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania

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James Bonwick (1817–1906) arrived in Tasmania, then Van Diemen's Land, in 1841, beginning an unstable and itinerant career as school-master, writer, and archivist. A zealous non-conformist and mystic, who was briefly in contact with Madame Blavatsky, Bonwick became interested in the plight of the Tasmanian aborigines after a visit to Flinders Island, to which the last of the nearly extinct population had been removed. Published in 1870, by which time Bonwick had become a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, this book is a sympathetic anthropological study of indigenous Tasmanian culture and society, based on colonial records, interviews with early settlers and Bonwick's own experiences. The companion volume to The Last of the Tasmanians, which discussed the reasons for the extinction and was cited by Darwin in The Descent of Man, it provides important source material, as well as insight into the morally difficult subject of nineteenth-century anthropology.

Release date NZ

November 8th, 2011

Author

James Bonwick

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

2 Printed music items; 2 Tables, black and white; 1 Plates, color; 8 Plates, black and white; 1 Maps; 7 Halftones, unspecified; 2 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

342

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania

Dimensions

140x216x19

ISBN-13

9781108038959

Product ID

18633277

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