The Lardil, an Australian Aboriginal tribe, have a rich and complex cognitive culture and are native speakers of three different languages, each used for separate occasions. McKnight examines their systems of classifying the world, and creates the first inventory of the cognitive aspects of an Aboriginal tribe's social structures (including kinship, myth, and ritual).

People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent: Systems of Classification among the Lardil of Mornington Island (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

Politics & Social Sciences

McKnight, David

Anthropology

Oxford University Press

From Hunting to Drinking: The Devastating Effects of Alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal Community

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork this is a vital addition to the literature on alcohol use and problem drinking, social change and postcolonialism.From Hunting to Drinking reveals the social change witnessed over a period of 30 years by an anthropologist on Mornington Island, off the North Queensland Coast, Australia, most notably the devastating effects that alcohol has had on this community.

Routledge

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork this is a vital addition to the literature on alcohol use and problem drinking, social change and postcolonialism.From Hunting to Drinking reveals the social change witnessed over a period of 30 years by an anthropologist on Mornington Island, off the North Queensland Coast, Australia, most notably the devastating effects that alcohol has had on this community.

Tax-Free Income for Life lays out a strategy that guarantees a secure retirement. McKnight shows how the combination of guaranteed, inflation-adjusted lifetime income and a proactive asset-shifting strategy can shield you from longevity risk and the cascade of unintended consequences that result from higher taxes. If ever there were a solution for the retiree, it's guaranteed tax-free income for life.

Tax-Free Income for Life: A Step-by-Step Plan for a Secure Retirement

Business & Money

Investing

Portfolio

Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War (Studies in Intelligence)

From the 1930s to the 1950s a large number of left-wing men and women in the USA, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada were recruited to the Soviet intelligence services. They were amateurs and the reason for their success is intriguing. Using Soviet archives, this work explores these successes.

Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage (Studies in Intelligence)

History

Military

From the 1930's to the 1950's a significant number of left-wing men and women in the United States, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada were recruited to the Soviet intellgence services.

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Frank Cass

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is the most powerful media organisation in the world. Murdoch's commercial success is obvious, but less well understood is his successful pursuit of political goals, using News Corporation as his vehicle. In Murdoch's Politics David McKnight tracks Murdoch's influence, from his support for Reagan and Thatcher, his deal with Tony Blair and attacks on Barack Obama. He examines the secretive corporate culture of News Corporation: its private political seminars for editors, its support for think tanks and its global campaigns on issues like Iraq and climate change. Including analysis of the phone hacking crisis, possible bribery charges and Murdoch's appearance at the Leveson enquiry, this book is a highly topical study of one of the most influential and controversial figures of the modern age.

Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst For Wealth and Power Shapes our World

Industries

Pluto Press

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is the most powerful media organisation in the world. Murdoch's commercial success is obvious, but less well understood is his successful pursuit of political goals, using News Corporation as his vehicle.In Murdoch's Politics David McKnight tracks Murdoch's influence, from his support for Reagan and Thatcher, his deal with Tony Blair and attacks on Barack Obama. He examines the secretive corporate culture of News Corporation: its private political seminars for editors, its support for think tanks and its global campaigns on issues like Iraq and climate change.Including analysis of the phone hacking crisis, possible bribery charges and Murdoch's appearance at the Leveson enquiry, this book is a highly topical study of one of the most influential and controversial figures of the modern age.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

This is a fascinating exploration of the relationship between marriage, violence and sorcery in an Australian Aboriginal Community, drawing on David McKnight’s extensive research on Mornington Island. The case studies, which occurred both before and after a Presbyterian Mission was established on the island, allow McKnight to show how the complexities of kin ties and increased sexual competition help to explain incidences of violence and sorcery, without resorting to psychiatric justifications. He demonstrates that kin ties both stimulated conflict and helped to mitigate it. Following on from McKnight’s previous book, Going the Whiteman’s Way (Ashgate 2004), Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery offers an archive of valuable primary materials, drawing on the author’s forty-year knowledge of the community on Mornington Island.

Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery: The Quest for Power in Northern Queensland (Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific)

Reference

Set of 3 very attractive little books with beautiful photography in a very nice slipcover decorated with 8 wonderful photographs.

The Little Wisdom Library Tribal Wisdom: Yanomami : Masters of the Spirit World, Maasai : People of Cattle, Lardil : Keepers of the Dreamtime

Anderson, David M.

Henley, Paul

Social Sciences

Chronicle Books LLC.

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People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent: Systems of Classification among the Lardil of Mornington Island (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

From Hunting to Drinking: The Devastating Effects of Alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal Community

From Hunting to Drinking: The Devastating Effects of Alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal Community

Tax-Free Income for Life: A Step-by-Step Plan for a Secure Retirement

Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage (Studies in Intelligence)

Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage (Studies in Intelligence)

Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst For Wealth and Power Shapes our World

Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst For Wealth and Power Shapes our World

Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery: The Quest for Power in Northern Queensland (Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific)

The Little Wisdom Library Tribal Wisdom: Yanomami : Masters of the Spirit World, Maasai : People of Cattle, Lardil : Keepers of the Dreamtime