Tatz (politics, Australian National U.) examines how inequitable the distribution of social services is amongst indigenous and non-indigenous people, and how the effect is being seen as increased suicides in young aboriginal men and women. He provides the social and political contexts, describes the origins of this "new violence," gives an anthropology of suicide, defines what exactly is an aboriginal suicide and explains how it is different, compares aboriginal community and societal values, applies lessons from abroad and proposes methods to alleviated the increasingly high rate of suicide amongst young aboriginal people in Australia and elsewhere. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
