Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines

David Unaipon

ISBN 10: 0522849059 / ISBN 13: 9780522849059

Edité par Melbourne University Publishing, 2001

A propos de cet article

Scarce first edition hard cover. Gift inscription on half title page, else fine unmarked book. Fine unmarked dust jacket. Interesting original retelling of a 1930 text, going back to original David Unaipon texts, after being re-written by an anthropolist at the time. A " literary repatriation", restoring the original text. 25cm x 16cm. 232pp. 8vo.

N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1730862511379

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines
• Éditeur: Melbourne University Publishing
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0522849059
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780522849059
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

David Unaipon - the man on the Australian $50 note - was a most extraordinary person. An early Aboriginal political activist, he was also a scientist, a preacher and an inventor. In the 1920s, under contract to the University of Adelaide, he was commissioned to collect traditional Aboriginal stories from around South Australia. The stories were published in 1930 as "Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals", but the author of the work was given as W. Ramsay Smith, FRS, anthropologist and Chief Medical Officer of South Australia. Unaipon's name does not appear anywhere in the book, except where he is mentioned in passing as a "narrator". In putting together this edition of the stories Unaipon collected and transcribed, the editors have undertaken a "literary repatriation", restoring the text to its original form and bringing it home to its community. The authors have righted the injustices done to David Unaipon by the brazen appropriation of his stories and by the patronizing editorial changes effected by Ramsay Smith.

À propos de l?auteur

Professor Stephen Muecke is Professor of Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney. His previous publications include Paperbark: A Collection of Black Australian Writings (1990) and No Road: Bitumen All the Way(1997). Dr Adam Shoemaker is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Queensland University of Technology.