The Aranda's Pepa: An Introduction to Carl Strehlow Masterpiece: Die Aranda - und Loritja - Stämme in Zentral - Australien (1907 - 1920)
Canberra: ANU Press, 2013. Softcover : pp. [vi] xix [xx] 310 [314] : plates, diagrams and maps : illustrated cover.
Light edge-wear and rubbing to cover. Very good. Item #14689
The German missionary Carl Strehlow (1871-1922) had a deep ethnographic interest in Aboriginal Australian cosmology and social life which he documented in his 7 volume work Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien that remains unpublished in English. In 1913, Marcel Mauss called his collection of sacred songs and myths, an Australian Rig Veda. This immensely rich corpus, based on a lifetime on the central Australian frontier, is barely known in the English-speaking world and is the last great body of early Australian ethnography that has not yet been built into the world of Australian anthropology and its intellectual history. - Publisher.
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