ISBN:
9780815346753
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9780754674498
Language:
English
Pages:
xx, 237 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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23 cm
Edition:
First issued in paperback
Series Statement:
Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
DDC:
393.10994
Keywords:
Aboriginal Australians Funeral customs and rites
;
Aboriginal Australians Death
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies
;
Australia Social life and customs
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: indigenous ways of death in Australia / Victoria Burbank, Katie Glaskin, Yasmine Musharbash and Myrna Tonkinson -- 'Sorry Business is Yapa Way': Warlpiri mortuary rituals as embodied practice / Yasmine Musharbash -- Solidarity in shared loss: death-related observances among the Martu of the western desert / Myrna Tonkinson -- Death and health: the resilience of 'Sorry Business' in the Kutjungka region of western Australia / Brian F. McCoy -- Time wounds: death, grieving and grievance in the northern Kimberley / Anthony Redmon -- A personal reflection on a saltwater man and the cumulative effects of loss / Katie Glaskin -- Social death and disenfranchised grief: an Alyawarr case study / Craig Elliott -- 'Promise me you'll come to my funeral': putting a value on Wiradjuri life through death / Gaynor Macdonald -- Death, family and disrespect in a northern Queensland town / Sally Babidge -- A place to rest: dying, residence and community stability in remote Arnhem land / Marcus Barber -- A life in words: history and society in Saibai Island (Torres Strait) tombstones / Richard Davis -- 'We don't want to chase 'em away': hauntology in central Cape York Peninsula / Benjamin Richard Smith -- Afterword: demography and destiny / Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy
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