1st Edition

The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World

By Shino Konishi Copyright 2012
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is the first historical study of indigenous Australian masculinity. Using the reactions of eighteenth-century western explorers to Aboriginal men, Konishi argues that these encounters were not as negative as has been thought.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 Skin; Chapter 2 Hair; Chapter 3 Face; Chapter 4 Carnal Bodies; Chapter 5 Martial Bodies; Chapter 6 Communicating Bodies; Chapter 7 Indolent Bodies; Chapter 8 Testing Bodies; Chapter 9 Epilogue;

    Biography

    Konishi, Shino