Torres Strait Islanders: Custom and Colonialism

by Jeremy Beckett

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The Torres Strait Islanders are Australia's 'other' indigenous minority. Their experience of colonialism and their reaction to their position in Australian society provides a striking counterpoint to that of the Aborigines. The author applies many years of study and work among the Torres Strait Islanders to provide a new account of their changing world in the islands and their changing role in Australia. A Melanesian people, the Torres Strait Islanders'...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521378621

ISBN13:9780521378628

Release Date:January 1990

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:268 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Cultural Social Science Social Sciences

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