Author: WISE, TIGGER.
Title: The Self-Made Anthropologist: A Life of A. P. Elkin.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. x, 286; text has 19 b/w. illustrations, notes, index, original stiff illustrated wrappers, bookplate of Lieutenant General Sir Robert Drew on front endpaper, good copy. Sydney; Allen& Unwin; 1985. Drawn from unpublished letters, diaries and documents, interviews with friends and foe and many other sources this fast moving biography presents a compelling portrait of the real Elkin. His life is played out against a background of the state and national politics of the Aboriginal issue, fierce academic rivalries, and the rise of a new profession.
Keywords: Australian biography australia history aborigines aboriginal
Title: The Self-Made Anthropologist: A Life of A. P. Elkin.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. x, 286; text has 19 b/w. illustrations, notes, index, original stiff illustrated wrappers, bookplate of Lieutenant General Sir Robert Drew on front endpaper, good copy. Sydney; Allen& Unwin; 1985. Drawn from unpublished letters, diaries and documents, interviews with friends and foe and many other sources this fast moving biography presents a compelling portrait of the real Elkin. His life is played out against a background of the state and national politics of the Aboriginal issue, fierce academic rivalries, and the rise of a new profession.
Keywords: Australian biography australia history aborigines aboriginal
Price: AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 27.67 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 108798
- Book number: 108798