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1 2 y separately published work icon The Aranda’s Pepa : An Introduction to Carl Strehlow's Masterpiece, Die Aranda-und Loritja-Stamme in Zentral-Australien (1907-1920) Anna Kenny , Acton : ANU E Press , 2013 9276230 2013 single work non-fiction

'The German missionary Carl Strehlow (1871–1922) had a deep ethnographic interest in Aboriginal Australian cosmology and social life, which he documented in his 7-volume work Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien that remains unpublished in English. In 1913, Marcel Mauss called his collection of sacred songs and myths an Australian Rig Veda. This immensely rich corpus, based on a lifetime on the central Australian frontier, is barely known in the English-speaking world and is the last great body of early Australian ethnography that has not yet been built into the world of Australian anthropology and its intellectual history.'

'The German psychological and hermeneutic traditions of anthropology that developed outside of a British–Australian intellectual world were alternatives to 19th-century British scientism. The intellectual roots of early German anthropology reached back to Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), the founder of German historical particularism, who rejected the concept of race as well as the French dogma of the uniform development of civilisation. Instead, he recognised unique sets of values transmitted through history and maintained that cultures had to be viewed in terms of their own development and purpose. Thus, humanity was made up of a great diversity of ways of life, language being one of its main manifestations. It is this tradition that led to a concept of cultures in the plural.' (Source: Publisher's website)

1 1 y separately published work icon Australia's Muslim Cameleers Anna Kenny , Philip Jones , Kent Town : Wakefield Press , 2007 Z1507857 2007 single work non-fiction Between 1870 and 1920 as many as 2000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Cameleers is a rich pictorial history of these men, their way of life and the vital role they played in pioneering transport and communication routes across outback Australia's vast expanses. Many of the images and artefacts in this fascinating account are published here for the first time, and the book contains a biographical listing of more than 1200 cameleers.
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