Tell The White Man : The Life Story of an Aboriginal Lubra. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Tell The White Man : The Life Story of an Aboriginal Lubra

Book condition is very good for 1st edition, published 1949. , Categorise the original publication strictly as a rare book requiring special handling. First Edition Status: The Collins 1949 (London/Sydney) print is the most sought-after by collectors of Australian history and anthropology. No dust jacket. Book boards clean and unmarked, except for sun wear on top. Book block is clean and sun stain colour. Text body clean, with yellow in colour due to year of publish. Spine intact. Over-all a great and neat copy of the book. See photos. Tell the White Man: The Life Story of an Aboriginal Lubra is a significant 1949 biographical book written by Harold E. Thonemann. It documents the life and perspectives of Buludja (also known as Buladja or Mary), an Indigenous Australian woman of the Mangarrayi (Mungari) people. Setting: The narrative is primarily set around Elsey Station, a famous cattle station located near the Roper River in the Northern Territory of Australia. Historical Value: It was notable for being one of the earliest published books attempting to describe the lives, culture, and colonial encounters of Australian Aborigines entirely from their own perspective. Key Themes and Content Cultural Traditions: The book covers the deep history of the Mangarrayi tribe, tracing oral histories back to 1844 (coinciding with Ludwig Leichhardt's second expedition). It records marriage customs, male and female initiation ceremonies, daily life, and traditional burial rites. Colonial Contact: It provides first-hand accounts of relations between Indigenous people and early European pastoralists and settlers in the Northern Territory. Linguistic Record: The text includes a rare linguistic glossary of words from the Mangarrayi, Yangman, and Alawa languages .Personal Hardship: It tracks Buludja's personal trials, including her experiences living and working on a pastoral station and her struggle with leprosy. Modern Linguistic and Critical Perspective: The title features the historical word "lubra," an Aboriginal word from Tasmania that was adopted by European colonists across Australia. While originally used by settlers to mean "Aboriginal wife" or "woman," it evolved over the 19th and 20th centuries into a highly derogatory and offensive term. Today, the word is recognized as a racist and sexist slur, and modern literary studies classify the book as a "ghostwritten biography" reflecting the paternalistic colonial dynamics of the 1940s.…