ISBN:
0-85575-030-8
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978-0-85575-030-5
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 224 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 53
Series Statement:
Australian Aboriginal Studies. Social Anthropology Series no. 53
Keywords:
Australien Ureinwohner, Australien
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Ethnographie
;
Tradition
;
Verwandtschaft
;
Totemismus
;
Tod
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Bestattung
;
Kulturwandel
;
Beziehungen Aborigine-Weiße
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Groote Eylandt
Abstract:
Study of Aborigines on Groote Eylandt - some from Bickerton Island, Anindiljaugwa language, Wanunamagaaljuagba and Wanungenungubuju people; Settlement at Angurugu Mission (Church Mission Society); traditional kinship, terminology, marriage patterns, changing kinship and marriage systems, death ceremonies sorcery; songs; dances; changes in mortuary rituals; Christianity and syncretism; economic basis of community; dugong and turtle fishing; plant collection; food and cooking; division of labour; new cash economy; employment in mining and in commercial fishing; links with Macassans and basis of Anindiljaugwa language; Ritual and mythological sites, bark paintings. (Katalog der National Library of Australia)
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Part 1. Kinship, totemism and marriage -- 1. Territorial affiliations of the Aborigines of the Groote Eylandt area -- 2. Ideal and "traditional" forms of kinship and marriage relationships -- 3. Form and source of current kinship and marriage patterns -- 4. Traditional and contemporary relationships between the Groote, Bickeron and adjacent mainland Aborigines -- Part 2. Man and death -- 5. Death and its current ramifications -- 6. The nature and source of change in mortuary and related rites -- Part 3. The economic basis and social consequences of the transition to settlement life -- 7. From self-sufficiency to economic dependence -- 8. The effect of white contact on aboriginal society and culture: some theroetical considerations -- Appendix A. The Änindiljaugwa language -- Appendix B. More of the logic of kin classification -- Appendix C. Designs representing mythical beings -- Appedix D. Coding categories -- Glossary -- References
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 222-224
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