Drawing on early colonial cources as well as the writing of amateur and professional anthropologists, liguists and archaeloogists, Aboriginal Economy and Society compares the socail life and culture os seven regions of Australia as they appear to have been at the threshold of colonisation. With a focus on the economy,the broad scope of the book encmpasses variation in environmental conditions, resources and technologies; key institutions including
kinship,cosmologies and governance; and organisation of production, distribution, exchange and consumption.
- ISBN10 0195507665
- ISBN13 9780195507669
- Publish Date 20 November 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 July 2023
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Oxford University Press Australia
- Imprint OUP Australia and New Zealand
- Format Paperback
- Pages 350
- Language English