The Aborigines of Tasmania (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

H. Ling Roth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331992400 ISBN 13: 9781331992400

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Aborigines of Tasmania

Looking at the vestiges of a people so representative of the rudest type of man, anthropologists must join with philanthrophists' in regret ting their unhappy fate, which fills a dismal page of our colonial history. We are now beginning to see what scientific value there would have been in such a minute careful portraiture of their thoughts and customs as Mr. Hewitt is drawing up of the Australian tribes just across Bass' Straits. As this cannot be, at least it is necessary that the existing information should be diligently collected and critically sifted. To this task Mr. H. Ling Roth has devoted long and conscientious labour, examining in all likely quarters so as to gather together the notices scattered through voyages, histories, colonial documents, and other sources from which first-hand information, however fragmentary, could be obtained. Anthropologists, who have so often had to complain of the scantiness of materials as to the native Tasmanians, will find with surprise that much more is really known than was supposed, and will be glad to possess this book, the more so that its Object being technical rather than popular, only a small number of copies has been printed.

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Excerpt from The Aborigines of Tasmania In the present work, the recorded knowledge as to the extinct native race of Tasmania has been brought together with, I think, an approach to absolute completeness. If there have remained anywhere up to modem times men whose condition has changed little since the early Stone Age, the Tasmanians seem to have been such a people. They stand before us as a brandy of the Negroid race illustrating the condition of man near his lowest known level of culture. Tribes who like them knew no agriculture nor pastoral life are common enough, indeed this is the most convenient definition of savages. Many tribes in the late Stone Age have lasted on into modem times, but it appears that the aborigines of Tasmania, whose last survivors have but just died out, by the workmanship of their stone implements rather represented the condition of Palaeolithic Man. Years ago, the evidence already pointed towards this important point in the history of civilization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Description

Comprehensive, detailed, and fascinating, Henry Ling Roth's The Aborigines of Tasmania charts the life and culture of Aboriginal Tasmanians. Roth's study compiles primary records and observations of this 'lost race', including 'vocabularies' and dialects. It provides rich documentation of original research that remains relevant a century later.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331992400
• ISBN 13: 9781331992400
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400