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Author Memmott, Paul.

Title Lardil properties of place : an ethnological study in man-environment relations / by Paul Christopher Memmott
Published [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1979

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 W'PONDS  304.2099438 Mem  AVAILABLE
Description 566 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Series Ph.D. Thesis - University of Queensland
Ph.D. Thesis - University of Queensland
Summary Study of the relation between the Lardil and their environment, focusing on the social use of place the association of a piece of environment with human behaviour, concepts and artifacts, includes description of Mornington Is. physical environment,; Lardil geography, social organisation, land tenure, seasonal movement and resource exploitation, construction of shelters, use of camps, graves, sacred, ritual and resource sites; outlines Lardil cosmology and cosmogony; contact history; continuity of traditional people-environment systems; changing uses of place; people-environment relations in 1975
Notes Typescript photocopy. [Brisbane] : University of Queensland Libraries, Central Library for Supply, 1981
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 1979
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 549-566
Subject University of Queensland. School of Geography, Planning and Architecture. -- Thesis -- PhD
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Mornington Island
Human ecology -- Australia -- Mornington Island (Qld.)
Genre/Form Academic theses.
LC no. cvx00105293