I'd rather dig potatoes : Clamor Schurmann and the Aborigines of South Australia, 1838-1853 / Edwin A. Schurmann
- Bib ID:
- 1505417
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Schurmann, Ted, 1917-
- Description:
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- Adelaide : Lutheran Publishing House, 1987
- 269 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0859103919
- Summary:
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Work of Clamor Schurmann from Dresden Missionary Society around Adelaide and Port Lincoln areas 1838-1858; biographical information and personal names re local Aboriginal people; work as Deputy Protector of Aborigines; work on dictionary of native vocabulary; establishment of school for native children which was later absorbed into Poonindie Mission; attempts to intervene in massacres and other indiscriminate killing of Aboriginal people in retaliation for killing of whites and theft of food; Police Commissioner, Major OHalloran given authority to try, sentence and execute Aboriginal people by Governor Gawler; body ornamentation; weapons and utensils especially skin; food and hunting and gathering techniques; marriage and treatment of women; traditional medicine; initiation rites; sorcery and afterdeath beliefs; fighting; mortuary practices; bullroarers; encounters with Nawo, Ngadjun and Ngaiawang people.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 261.
- Subject:
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- Schurmann, C. W. (Clamor Wilhelm)
- Schurmann, C. W. (Clamor Wilhelm) -- Diaries
- Missionaries -- South Australia -- Biography
- Lutherans -- South Australia -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- History
- Hunting
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Technology - Wood
- Language - Vocabulary
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Weapons
- Language - Personal names
- Ngadjuri / Ngadyuri people (L5) (SA SI54-05)
- Education - Schools
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Ngayawung language (S7) (SA SI54-10)
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Nawo / Nawu people (L2) (SA SI53-07)
- Health - Skin physiology and disease
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1788-1850
- Ngayawung people (S7) (SA SI54-10)
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Bullroarers
- Nawo / Nawu language (L2) (SA SI53-07)
- Government policy - State and territory - South Australia
- Gathering
- Religions - Christianity
- Technology - Utensils
- Law enforcement - Police
- Ngadjuri / Ngadyuri language (L5) (SA SI54-05)
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Material culture - Fur and skin objects and decorations
- South Australia -- History -- 1836-1900
- Port Lincoln (West SA SI53-11)
- Poonindie (West SA SI53-11)
- Adelaide (SE SA SI54-09)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2087 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2017
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1987
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