Edited by Martin Thomas
Translations from the French by Mathilde de Hauteclocque and from the German by Christine Winter
Published by ANU E Press and Aboriginal History Incorporated
Aboriginal History Monograph 15
National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton), 1841-1918.
Culture in translation : the anthropological legacy of R. H. Mathews.
Bibliography.
ISBN 9781921313240 (pbk.)
ISBN 9781921313257 (online)
1. Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton), 1841-1918. 2.
Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs. 3.
Aboriginal Australians - Languages. 4. Ethnology -
Australia. I. Thomas, Martin Edward. II. Title. (Series :
Aboriginal history monograph ; no.15).
305.800994
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