John Smith wrote on Dec 4
th, 2022 at 7:24am:
Is Boris still making up stories
So your reality is Aborigines never were Cannibals - and never rape and murder or eat children?
You poor deluded fool.
And you get to vote.
So Cannibalism never happened with Aborigines? Not ever in 50,000 years?
Spiritual characteristics
Spencer and Gillen, like Eylmann, had some interest in the spiritual
and moral character of Aborigines. Spencer reserved his most detailed
commentary for Wanderings in Wild Australia (1928: Vol. I, pp. 197–
204), consistent with what he seems to think is the more interpretative
and tenuous nature of this compared with the more observationally
grounded formal ethnography. The issues that people commented
on back then seem to have been fairly standard: the gratitude or
ingratitude of Aborigines; their capacity for cruelty or sympathy; men’s
treatment of women;
cannibalism; and treatment of the elderly and sick.
Comments on these matters by Spencer tend to be limited to what were
contemporary commonplaces, such as that Aborigines do not express
gratitude but simply treat whites as they would a fellow tribesman (1928:
Vol. I, p. 199); that they are completely childlike, with no thought for
the morrow (p. 203) and generally lighthearted; and that it is unsafe and
unwise to judge the actions of a native ‘from the standpoint of view of the
motives and feelings that govern our own’ (p. 202).
Eylmann goes much further in the fullness of his characterological
discussion. He does so partly by considering certain commonplaces—
‘what is often said’—but also by developing discussion from concepts
that allow for elaboration and comparative comment, and of a range
of phenomena that reveal new perspectives. He also regularly considers
certain characteristics as he sees them among Aborigines, and between
Aborigines and settlers.
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