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My Dear Spencer: The Letters of F.J. Gillen to Baldwin Spencer
by Gillen, Frank; John Mulvaney, Howard Morphy & Alison Petch (editors)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1864470216
- ISBN 13
- 9781864470215
- Seller
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About This Item
Melbourne, Australia: Hyland House, 1997. This collection of letters sheds light on race, social conditions, and Aboriginal culture in central Australia and documents a crucial period in the history of anthropology; Gillen, the Station Master and Special Magistrate in Alice Springs, met Baldwin Spencer, Professor of Biology at the University of Melbourne, during the 1894 Horn Expedition to Central Australia; Gillen and Spencer collaborated on fieldwork to document the culture and beliefs of the Aboriginal people and published two classic works, The Native Tribes of Australia and The Northern Tribes of Central Australia, which influenced theories on the development of human society; introductory chapters place Gillen and Spencer in their historical and intellectual context; includes photographs (red cloth with gold lettering on spine, one corner slightly worn; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005960
- Title
- My Dear Spencer: The Letters of F.J. Gillen to Baldwin Spencer
- Author
- Gillen, Frank; John Mulvaney, Howard Morphy & Alison Petch (editors)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1864470216
- ISBN 13
- 9781864470215
- Publisher
- Hyland House
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne, Australia
- Date Published
- 1997
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
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