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The Logic of Unending Travel

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Aboriginals cocooned their landscape and daily life and human relationships with myth and make-believe, and for a long time that attitude fascinated the more tolerant scholars and disillusioned others. Aboriginals also had a deep understanding of so many conditions which affected their daily life.

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  1. D. F. Thomson: ‘The Seasonal Factor in Human Culture: Illustrated from the Life of a Contemporary Nomadic Group’, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1939, pp. 209–221.

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Blainey, G. (1975). The Logic of Unending Travel. In: Triumph of the Nomads. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02423-0_11

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