A study of Aborigines in the pastoral west of New South Wales : 1958 MA thesis with new introduction and preface / by Jeremy Beckett
- Bib ID:
- 3562806
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Beckett, Jeremy, 1931-2022
- Description:
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- Sydney : University of Sydney, 2005
- 164 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1864877189
- ISSN:
- 1030-6412
- Series:
- Oceania monograph ; 55.
- Summary:
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Annotation pending.
- Full contents:
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- Preface by Barry Morris
- Introduction 2004 by Jeremy Becket
- Natives and settlers in Western New South Wales
- the Aborigine as a citizen
- Aboriginal administration
- Migration and settlement
- Marriage and the family
- Ownership
- Getting a living
- The significance of liquor in Aboriginal life
- Black Australians, white Australians: status and interaction
- Aboriginal society
- Maps: Western New South Wales; Location of the principal Aboriginal peoples of Western New South Wales
- Tables: Present-day Aboriginal settlements in Western N.S.W.: origins of inhabitants; Migration of Aborigines from main centres of Aboriginal population in Western N.S.W; The Aboriginal population of Murrin Bridge and Wilcannia, according to age and sex; number married also indicated; Average surviving issue of Aboriginal women on Murrin Bridge Station to June '57 compared with average issue of wives in Australian extra-metropolitan, 1947; Estimated weekly budgets of five Aboriginal families: Jan-June 1957; Number of Aborigines divorced as a proportion of those ever married; Who punishes you when you do something wrong?; Who is the most important person in a home?: answers from children of three public primary schools; Recruitment of households in four localities of Western N.S.W.; Occupations of Aborigines in four districts of Western N.S.W. June 1957; "What job would you like to do when you grow up?" : answers from children of three Public Primary Schools; "Which job is best?": grading of nine occupations by public primary school children in three districts of Western N.S.W; Average number of days worked by 25 Murrin Bridge Aboriginal men Jan-June 1957; Class of worker; Occasions on which Aborigines and whites are associated on a footing of more or less equality: number of Aborigines involved in each locality.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales, Western -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales, Western -- Economic conditions
- Socioeconomic conditions
- Employment
- Gender relations - Marriage
- Murrin Bridge (SW NSW SI55-06)
- Lake Cargelligo (SW NSW SI55-06)
- Hillston (SW NSW SI55-06)
- Wilcannia (NW NSW SH54-16)
- Euabalong (SW NSW SI55-06)
- Marriage & sex relations
- Other authors/contributors:
- University of Sydney
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2092 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2022
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2005
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