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Ronald M. Berndt
Foundation Professor of Anthropology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, 1963–81. Coauthor of The World of the First Australians and others.
Ronald M. Berndt,
Robert Tonkinson
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, West Australia. Editor of The Wentworth Lectures: Honouring Fifty Years of Australian Indigenous Studies and Anthropological...
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Australian Aboriginal peoples, one of the two distinct groups of Indigenous peoples of Australia, the other being the Torres Strait Islander peoples. It has long been conventionally held that Australia is the only continent where the entire Indigenous population maintained a single kind of adaptation—hunting and gathering—into modern times. Some scholars now argue, however, that there is evidence of the early practice of both agriculture and aquaculture by Aboriginal peoples. This finding raises questions regarding the traditional viewpoint that presents Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples as perhaps unique in the degree of contrast between the complexity of their ...(100 of 7638 words)

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