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Exchange and Ceremony Among Australian Aborigines

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Economic Structure and the Ceremonial Exchange Cycle in Arnhem Land

By Dr. Donald F. Thomson. Pp. vi + 106 + 11 plates. (Melbourne and London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1949.) 12s. 6d. net.

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  1. Stanner, W. E. H., “Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River, North Australia. A Preliminary Paper”, Oceania, 4, 156 and 458 (1933–34).

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  2. McCarthy, F. D., “‘Trade’ in Aboriginal Australia, and ‘Trade’ Relationships with Torres Strait, New Guinea and Malaya”, Oceania, 9, 405 (1938–39); 10, 80 and 171 (1939–40).

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