Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines Format: Paperback. This item is unavailable.
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Published by Dover Publishers, 2003
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- Title
- Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines Format: Paperback
- Author
- Smith, W. Ramsay
- Publisher
- Dover Publishers
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0486427099
- ISBN 13
- 9780486427096
With this colorful compilation of oral traditions, readers can savor tales as they were told by their aboriginal narrators ― from reverent recountings of the origins of the world and human life, to stories about the roots of religious and social customs, to fanciful and humorous animal fables.
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Smith (1859-1937) did not claim his collection to be scientific, comprehensive, or even representative. Rather, he records as literally as he thinks comprehensible to English readers, narratives told by pure-blooded aboriginals of various tribes from a few localities in Australia. The color plates o
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