| Description |
324 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Changing skin colour in Australia -- Basedow family background -- Hermann Klaatsch -- Basedow's German education -- Eugenics in Germany -- Chief protector of the North Territory -- Australian aboriginal (1925) -- A.O. Neville and child removal -- Blonde aboriginies -- Aborigines' Protection League of South Australia -- Knights of the Boomerang -- Tales out of school : patriotism, dignity, morality, lore and law as nature willed them - faith-healing - feminine celebrants -- Tally-ho! the chase, the spoil, preparation and a little drink -- Manhood's tribulations : initiation ceremonies, rituals and man-raising processes in general -- Third degree : final drastic step, miding the blood of kinship, and the elevation to maturity -- Ceremonial bread and water : intijuma ceremonies in actual practice -- Aux armes! revenge and bloodshed, forgiveness -- Requieseat in pace : funerals, widows, and other mournful subjects - with an elopement -- Post-mortem : man-eaters, mummies, autopsies and sepulchral artists |
| Summary |
Background on the life, work and influence of Herbert Basedow; family and early education; Lutheran attitude to Aborigines; association with Hermann Klaatsch; differences in German and English anthropology; physical anthropological work of Klaatsch - Aborigines as a primary race to Europeans; theories on the racial origins and affiliations of Aborigines; German eugenics movement ? early statements of Aryan racial superiority; appointment as Protector of Aborigines of the Northern Territory; attitudes to and administration of Aboriginal children - Bungalow Half Caste Home; dispute with Noetling; solutions to the ?half-caste problem?; publication of 'The Australian Aboriginal'; A.O. Neville and the administration of mixed race children; problem of traditional practices - creation of cannibalism and infanticide; establishment of ?Sister Kate?s?; Basedow?s medicine and Aboriginal health - relation of fair hair and hookworm; formation and aims of the Aborigines? Protection League of South Australia - petition to create an Aboriginal state; racial theory in Germany; publication of 'Knights of the Boomerang'; agues that the theory of Aborigines as an ancestral Caucasian fuelled eugenic based policy |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal culture |
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Aborigines |
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Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia) |
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Basedow, Herbert |
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Biography |
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Photography |
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Racial discrimination |
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Social conditions |
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White Australia policy |
| Notes |
"Including Herbert Basedow's 'Knights of the boomerang' and David Kaus's essay 'On the photography of Herbert Basedow'" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [282]-319) and index |
| Subject |
Basedow, Herbert, 1881-1933.
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Basedow, Herbert, 1881-1933. The Australian Aboriginal
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Klaatsch, Hermann, 1863-1916.
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Neville, A. O. (Auber Octavius), 1875-1954.
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Aborigines' Protection League of South Australia
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Social conditions.
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Race discrimination -- Australia.
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Race discrimination -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
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Stolen generations (Australia)
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White Australia policy.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
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Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552
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| Author |
Basedow, Herbert, 1881-1933.
Knights of the boomerang
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Kaus, David.
On the photography of Herbert Basedow
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| ISBN |
9781921509926 (paperback) |
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