Аборигены Австралии: Аборигенная Австралия в колониальную эпоху

The Australian Aboriginesby Roderick J. FlanaganWith a new foreword by the editor, M.D. First published in 1888, The Australian Aborigines is one of the earliest extended colonial studies of Indigenous Australians. Written during the height of Victorian anthropology, the book attempts to document Aboriginal society, ceremony, warfare, spirituality, and daily life at a time when most European writers dismissed or misrepresented it. Roderick J. Flanagan sought to counter extreme claims of Aboriginal inferiority. Yet his arguments were framed within nineteenth-century racial theory and the hierarchies of empire. The result is a work that is both historically important and deeply revealing of colonial thought. This new edition preserves the original text in full and includes a critical modern foreword to help readers understand its historical context, language, and limitations. Ideal for readers interested in: Australian history Aboriginal history and culture Indigenous studies Colonial Australia Anthropology and race theory The intellectual history of empire Public domain historical texts Read today, The Australian Aborigines offers insight not only into Aboriginal life as seen by a nineteenth-century observer, but into the mindset of colonial Australia itself.