Aborigines of Tasmania (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108006644)

First published in 1890 in a run of just 200 copies, anthropologist Henry Ling Roth's The Aborigines of Tasmania provides a comprehensive account of native Tasmanians' life and culture. Roth, writing in the wake of the Tasmanian Aborigines' extinction, produces 'an approach to absolute completeness' that relies on the accounts of the explorers, colonisers, and anthropologists who preceded him. His work covers an exhaustive range of detail, from the Tasmanians' mannerisms to their psychology, origin, and language. Compiling his predecessors' observations and arguments, Roth often sets opinions in opposition to highlight the lack of consensus amongst those who encountered the Tasmanians. Roth's book is additionally valuable for the 'vocabularies' included in his appendices. The 1899 edition (225 copies) revises and expands the first, adding photographs to the first edition's illustrations as well as new appendices. It made an innovative and lasting contribution to an established research tradition.

Author: Henry Ling Roth,Marion E. Butler,James Backhouse Walker
ISBN-10: 1108006647
ISBN-13: 9781108006644
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/26/2009
Pages: 398
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.82d