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A biographical insight into the life of Elsie Roughsey and collaboration with a few Aboriginal women of Mornington Island. These stories highlight the psychological, social and cultural change during the latter third of the twentieth century.
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This work includes 14 chapters:
1.The Nature of the Study
2. The Island and Its People Before 1915
3. The Island and Its People in 1970
4. The Island and Its People in 1973
5. Labbarnor: Sweetness of the Fig
6. Elsie as a Wife
7. Elsie as a Mother
8. Elsie as the Aboriginal Traditionalist
9. Elsie as a Social Person
10. The Other Middle-aged Lardil Women
11. The Younger Lardil Women
12. The Kaiadilt Women
13. Reflections
14. The Women and Psycholcultural Adaptation
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Subjects:
- Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria area, Far North Queensland, Queensland,
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