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"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers, 198pp. Light wear to cover edges/corners. A near fine copy. CD-ROM included. This book is the result of a four-decade long relationship between the Anbarra people of the Blyth River in northern Arnhem Land and leading scholars from various fields of research.The book and CD-ROM are based on 20 extraordinary texts created by Frank Gurrmanamana in 1960 to explain to anthropologist Les Hiatt the protocols and etiquette of Anbarra society. They follow an imagined life from birth through boyhood, to marriage and to death. The texts are published in Gidjingarli and English. The CD-ROM presents them in spoken form, and provides a vast body of information about the Anbarra people, their culture, history, land and environment.

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy octavo 198pp., b/w pls., map, Inc. CD-ROM. Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy of a scarce title.