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Chargement... Legendary tales of the Australian aboriginespar David Unaipon
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David Unaipon - the man on the Australian $50 note - was a most extraordinary person. An early Aboriginal political activist, he was also a scientist, a preacher and an inventor. In the 1920s, under contract to the University of Adelaide, he was commissioned to collect traditional Aboriginal stories from around South Australia. The stories were published in 1930 as Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, but the author of the work was given as W. Ramsay Smith, FRS, anthropologist and Chief Medical Officer of South Australia. Unaipon's name does not appear anywhere in the book, except where he is mentioned in passing as a narrator. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)398.20994Social sciences Customs, Etiquette, Folklore Folklore Folk literature History, geographic treatment, biography Folklore of Australnesia and the Pacific Islands AustraliaClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (3.75)
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It's his writing that interests us here and Unaipon comes across as a highly literate writer who was trying to introduce western eyes to Australian Aboriginal thinking. A number of traditional stories and legends are included here, mostly from Unaipon's Ngarrindjeri people, and one is left thinking that had Unaipon been given the opportunity to write other books on this topic, then perhaps we would not have lost so much traditional knowledge as we have.
Sadly, Unaipon did not live to see this book published with his name on it, as the manuscript was basically stolen from him by a non-Indigenous writer, who made some basic edits and released it under his name. (