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Aboriginal economy and society: Australia at the threshold of colonisation

Ian Keen

Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2003, xxi + 436 pp, ISBN 0195507665

This book by distinguished anthropologist Ian Keen systematically compares Aboriginal customary social practices and economies of seven different regions of mainland Australia as they were at the advent of colonisation. This was a phase that each region entered at a different historical period, given the time it took for colonisation to encompass the whole continent. Two of the regions are in southern temperate ...

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