Author: Mervyn J. Meggitt Publisher: [Sydney] Angus and Robertson [c1962] ISBN: 9780207130052 Category : Aboriginal Australians Languages : en Pages : 348
Book Description
Ethnography of the Walbiri (Waljbiri); physical environment, includes table of Walbiri flora, with language and Latin names, uses; history from 1862, contacts with Australian explorers, pastoral settlement, violent conflict, establishment of Aboriginal settlements; contemporary distribution, numbers, relations with neighbouring groups, ethnocentrism; local organisation, sections, subsections, personal mobility in relation to religious significance of country; kinship system, residential family unit, marital relations, discord, elopements, adultery; socialisation, relations between parents and children, other kinfolk; moieties, descent; progressions through agegrades; law, social control; betrothal, marriage, childbirth; initiation, circumcision, subincision; death, funerary practices, child vs adult, man vs woman, causes of death, mourning.
Author: Baldwin Spencer Publisher: ISBN: Category : Aboriginal Australians Languages : en Pages : 778
Book Description
This book contains sensitive material. It is not available for viewing without prior permission of the current head of the Indigenous Cultures Department.
Author: Theodor George Henry Strehlow Publisher: Angus & Robertson Publishers ISBN: Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 842
Book Description
This is Strehlow's most widely regarded work and the culmination of his anthropological work related to the Aranda (Arunta) people of the Alice Springs region. In this work Strehlow records the patrilineal chants or songs of the Aranda people and puts them into a wider context of totemic cultural understanding. Of particular interest is Chapter 10, the love songs of the Aranda people, which pre-date European romantic conventions by several thousand years.
Author: Géza Róheim Publisher: ISBN: Category : Aboriginal Australians Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
Part 1; Analysis of dreams recounted by 6 Aranda, Pindupi and Kutaka/Luritja informants on various themes; magic assault (description of pointing the bone), homosexuality, sadism, polygamy, jealousy and reconciliation, Oedipus complex, sexual repression; Part 2; Collection of 129 tukurpu/altjira folk tales and myths from Luritja and Aranda sources; tales centre on the theme of growing-up - overcoming superhuman beings, monsters, demons and cannibals.
Author: Sam D. Gill Publisher: ISBN: 0198027540 Category : Aboriginal Australians Languages : en Pages : 294
Book Description
Yet, beyond the pessimism that often characterizes postmodernity, he charts an optimistic and creative course framed in the terms of play.
Author: Tasman Brown Publisher: University of Adelaide Press ISBN: 0987073001 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 329
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive account of a unique pioneering longitudinal study of human growth that continues to contribute to our knowledge and raise new questions 60 years after it commenced. Although over 200 scientific publications have arisen from the study, this book describes, in a single volume, the key researchers involved, the Australian Aboriginal people from Yuendumu who participated in the study, and the main outcomes. The findings have provided new insights into how teeth function, as well as factors affecting oral health and physical growth. General readers, as well as students and researchers, will find much of interest in this volume.
Author: Francis James Gillen Publisher: Hyland House Publishing ISBN: 9781864470222 Category : Aboriginal Australians Languages : en Pages : 554
Book Description
The extraordinary collection of letters has remained unpublished for nearly a century. It sheds vivid light on race relations, social conditions and Aboriginal culture in Central Australia, It also documents a crucial and poorly understood period in the history of anthropology. The book makes an invaluable contribution to the understanding of central Australian Aboriginal society, and to current debates concerning land rights.
Author: Sir Baldwin Spencer Publisher: ISBN: Category : Aboriginal Australians Languages : en Pages : 669
Book Description
"The book surveys Aboriginal life and behavior broadly and, for many of the most interesting aspects of the culture, reports in thorough detail (both authors became fully initiated members of the Arunta tribe). Customs relating to marriage, childbirth, vengeance, burial and mourning, the hunt, etc.; ritual actions- the knocking out of teeth, head-biting, mutilation; and beliefs about eclipses, medicine, ancestors, the creation of the world, pregnancy, etc. are described. Remarkable photographs-over 130-show portraits of tribesmen and women, costumed participants in rituals, chipped stone arrowheads, boomerangs and other weapons, sacred wooden and stone objects, and Aboriginal drawings and decorations. Explaining the social organization of the tribes is one of the authors' chief interests. The unusually compex kinship system, found only among Australian Aboriginals, is explored exhaustively. Another large section of the book describes in detail the weeks-long Engwura ceremony of circumcision and subincision."-- Back cover.
Author: Mervyn J. Meggitt
Author: W. H. Willshire
Author: Baldwin Spencer
Author: Theodor George Henry Strehlow
Author: Géza Róheim
Author: Sam D. Gill
Author: Tasman Brown
Author: Frederick G. G. Rose
Author: Francis James Gillen
Author: Sir Baldwin Spencer