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This chapter explores how Kamilaroi and Kurnai differed from other books on Aboriginal and Pacific Island people. It examines the content and the form of Kamilaroi and Kurnai with a particular focus on Fison’s and Howitt’s challenges to the method, analysis and sources of metropolitan anthropology. Identifying these critiques requires close scrutiny of the book because Kamilaroi and Kurnai is organised in a very complex way reflecting the unusual circumstances of its production and its ambitious aims.
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© 2015 Helen Gardner and Patrick McConvell
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Gardner, H., Mcconvell, P. (2015). Kamilaroi and Kurnai: The Content and the Form. In: Southern Anthropology — a History of Fison and Howitt’s Kamilaroi and Kurnai. Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137463814_14
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