Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines - Hardcover

David Unaipon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0522849059 ISBN 13: 9780522849059

Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

David Unaipon was a most extraordinary man. He was not only an early Aboriginal political activist, but also a scientist, a writer, a preacher and an inventor. In the 1920s, under contract at the University of Adelaide, he was commissioned to collect traditional Aboriginal stories from around South Australia. He also acted as a 'collector' for the Aborigines Friends' Association. The manuscript version of the stories he collected is now held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. Most of them come from his own Ngarrindjeri people, but some are from other South Australian peoples. Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker, who are working on a definitive biography of David Unaipon, have put together a new collection of the stories he collected and transcribed.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor Stephen Muecke is Professor of Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney. His previous publications include Paperbark: A Collection of Black Australian Writings (1990) and No Road: Bitumen All the Way(1997). Dr Adam Shoemaker is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Queensland University of Technology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0522849059
• ISBN 13: 9780522849059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Stephen Muecke, Adam Shoemaker