Roth Walter E. Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines

Cambridge University Press, 2015 — xvi, 224 pages. — (Cambridge Library Collection). — ISBN: 978-1-108-00617-0.From the earliest surviving glossaries and translations to nineteenth-century academic philology and the growth of linguistics during the twentieth century, language has been the subject both of scholarly investigation and of practical handbooks produced for the upwardly mobile, as well as for travellers, traders, soldiers, missionaries and explorers. This collection will reissue a wide range of texts pertaining to language, including the work of Latin grammarians, groundbreaking early publications in Indo-European studies, accounts of indigenous languages, many of them now extinct, and texts by pioneering figures such as Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm von Humboldt and Ferdinand de Saussure.The Spoken Language of the Pitta-Pitta Aboriginals: An Elementary Grammar
Tabular Comparison between Various Selected Words Used in the Different Ethnographical Districts of North-West-Central Queensland
Social and Individual Nomenclature: Class Systems, etc.
The Expression of Ideas by Manual Signs: A Sign Language
The Search for Food. Pituri
Domestic Implements and Utensils. Fire-sticks and Yam-sticks. Huts and Shelters
Personal Ornamentation and Decoration. Mural Painting, etc.
Recreation: Corrobbororees, Sports, and Games
Travel, Trade, and Barter. The so-called Letter or Message-stick
The Maintenance of Law and Order: Fighting, Fighting Weapons
Disease, Accident, Death. Cannibalism
Rain-making, Thunder and Lightning-making
Ethno-pornography