SPENCER (Baldwin) and GILLEN (F.J.). The Northern Tribes of Central Australia. London, Macmillan and Co., 1904, 8°, XXXV-784 p., près de 300 ill. photographiques, carte dépliante, 2 planches dépliantes en coul., rel. édit. (2 petites taches au...
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1er plat, trace d'étiquette au dos). Edit. orig. A pioneering work in Australia anthropology, signed by both authors. Professor Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929) was an Oxford-educated polymath who trained as an evolutionary biologist while cultivating an enduring interest in social anthropology. He first travelled into central Australia as a scientist and photographer on the Horn expedition of 1894, during the course of which he met Francis Gillen, then Alice Springs postmaster who was later appointed to the role of special magistrate and Aboriginal sub-protector for that region. In 1896 Spencer joined Gillen for the most intensive field work attempted to date on traditional Aboriginal customs and lifestyle. Spencer's ongoing work with Gillen was one of the most fruitful and enduring scholarly collaborations in Australian anthropological history.This book is the result of their fieldwork in 1901-1902 amongst the Warramunga, Kaitish, Arunta and other tribes of central and northern inland Australia where the pair made a copious photographic record of ceremonies, ritual processes and aspects of daily life. Their descriptions of totemic social divisions strongly influenced the great structural anthropologists of the twentieth-century, including Claude Levi-Strauss.
