Battle of the Mitchel River (Australian anthropology)
Sharp, Lauriston 1952 Steel Axes for Stone-Age Australians. Human Organization 1/1952
http://www.anthroprof.org/documents/Docs102/102articles/steelAxes.pdf)
Below is cited from: Technological Innovation and Culture Change: An Australian Case. In: Hammond, Peter
B. Cultural and Social Anthropology. Selected Readings, 84-94. The Macmillan Co. Collier-Macmillan Ltd.
London.
Lauriston Sharp is the first Professor of Anthropology at Cornell (1936) (see about him in Wikipedia)
1864: The aboriginals [Yir Yoront] "had the temerity to attack a party of cattle men .. [The Battle of the Mitchell
River] ... - this was one of the rare instances in which Australians aboriginals stood up to European gunfire for
any length of time... [diary]: ... 10 carbines poured volley after volley into them from all directions ..." .. 30 killed...
Later anthropological on-site research: In the almost three-year long anthropological investigation conducted
some 70 years later - in all the material of hundreds of free association interviews, in texts of hundreds of
dreams and myths, in genealogies, and eventually in hundreds of answers to direct and indirect questioning
on just this particular matter - there was nothing that could be interpreted as a reference to this shocking
contact with Europeans." (p. 85).
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© 2009 International Institute of Anthropology, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
© 2009 Lolita Nikolova, PhD
© 2009 Lolita Nikolova, PhD
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