The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer: A Re-interpretation
Author(s): Phillip Batty
The work of Spencer and Gillen, particularly The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899), has been enormously influential for more than 100 years. Their detailed descriptions of Aboriginal life were the first major template for Australia's understanding of Aboriginality. Spencer's beautiful photographs, in particular, excited the imaginations of both academic anthropologists and the general public. This is a new, expanded edition of The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer, with a new introduction by John Morton reflecting the considerable advances in knowledge and thinking about Aboriginality since 1982.
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John Morton is a senior lecturer in anthropology at La Trobe University and senior curator in the Indigenous Cultures Program at Museum Victoria. He has extensive fieldwork experience with Arrernte people in central Australia and has published widely in Aboriginal studies and general anthropology. He is among the leading scholars in the ethnography of this area.
General Fields
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- : Melbourne University Press
- : Melbourne University Press
- : 1.294
- : 23 October 2005
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : photos
- : 224
- : 305.899150222
- : illustrated edition
- : Hardback
- : Phillip Batty