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Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in Settled Australia
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Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in Settled Australia Paperback - 1991

by Ian Keen (Editor); Foreword by Marie Reay


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This volume brings together results of research by anthropologists on the social life of people who used to be labelled 'part-Aborigines' or 'urban Aborigines'. Issues discussed include bases of identity, ties of family, structure of community, ways of speaking, beliefs and feelings about country, and attitudes to the past.

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  • Title Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in Settled Australia
  • Author Ian Keen (Editor); Foreword by Marie Reay
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra
  • Date January 1991
  • ISBN 9780855751852 / 0855751851
  • Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.75 x 0.8 in (24.13 x 17.15 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88194466
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.899

About the author

Ian Keen is an eminent and widely published anthropologist who retired from teaching at the end of 2002 and is currently a visiting fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.
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