Berndt, Ronald M. and Catherine H.; with John Stanton. Robert Tonkinson (Foreword)

A World That Was. The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia [Association Copy, signed by John Stanton and Catherine Berndt]

Vancouver: Miegunyah Press/University of British Columbia, 1993. 1st ed., large octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp xxxi, 624, original boards in d.j. Clean and unmarked. Near-fine condition. Robert Tonkinson's own copy (Western Australian anthropologist) with his stamp to front paste-down and a typed, tipped-in presentation inscription to Tonkinson, signed John (Stanton) and Catherine (Berndt) "... on behalf of Ron" (as Ronald M. Berndt had died prior to this publication). A nice association copy of the four leading Western Australian anthropologists and authors of this book. Also included is a four page article, 'Ronald and Catherine Berndt : An Appreciation' by Peter Sutton from the Anthropological Forum and inscribed and signed in ink to "Myrna and Bob (Tonkinson), With all best wishes, Peter (Sutton)", yet another Australian anthropologist.

Detailed study of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia, the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia. Number eleven in the Miegunyah Press series, published by the University of British Columbia and Melbourne University. Item #99022

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