Torres Strait Islanders
Torres Strait Islanders

Author: Jeremy Beckett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780521378628

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Reactions of the Torres Strait Islanders, Australia's "other" indigenous minority, to colonialism and their position in Australian society, are compared with the Aborigine experience.

Round About the Earth
Round About the Earth

Author: Joyce E. Chaplin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 1416596208

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Originally published in hardcover in 2012.

Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits: Volume 3, Linguistics
Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits: Volume 3, Linguistics

Author: A. C. Haddon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-02-17

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 0521179874

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The third in a series compiling the results of an ethnographical research expedition in the Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Borneo. Written entirely by Sidney H. Ray, a prominent member of the expedition and a renowned scholar of Melanesian languages, the text details a variety of the region's languages.

Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits: Volume 5, Sociology, Magic and Religion of the Western Islanders
Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits: Volume 5, Sociology, Magic and Religion of the Western Islanders

Author: A. C. Haddon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-02-17

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0521179890

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The fifth in a series compiling the results of an ethnographical research expedition in the Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Borneo. Originally published in 1904, it contains information on the societies and belief structures of the indigenous peoples living in the western islands of the Strait.