The Economic Status of Australian Aborigines. JON C. ALTMAN and JOHN NIEUWENHUYSEN: “Whitefelia Business”: Aborigines in Australian Politics. MICHAEL C. HOWARD: Among Cannibals. CARL LUMHOLTZ
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عنوان ژورنال: American Ethnologist
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0094-0496
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1980.7.2.02a00220