AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL –

General introductory text on traditional Aboriginal societies; the Dreaming and relation to land; stories and mythology: religion – totemism; rights to land – conflict and violence; law, leadership and social authority; sorcery and magic; ceremonies; gender divisions; life cycle – child rearing, death -mortuary practices and beliefs; kinship – diagrams, moiety and clan systems, section and subsection systems (examples from Arnhem Land, Nyangumarta, Ngaanyatjarra, Walpiri and Ngarluma); marriage rules; economy and subsistence – seasonality, foods; regional systems – inland riverine (Paakantji), Western Desert (Martu), coastal Cape York (Pama Malnkana), southern highlands (Ngunawal/Ngarigo), south western forests (Nyungar) Tasmanian coast (Nuenonne); hunting, fishing and gathering; use of fire; material culture – tools, shelter, clothing; trade and exchange; arts – rock art, engraving, basketry, ornaments and decoration, music, dance and performance; language and communication; uses of archaeology; colonisation and settlement; environmental change.

• vi, 378 p. : chiefly col. ill., col. maps ; 31 cm. First Edition #190425

• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Stories and motifs
  • Ceremonies
  • Technology
  • Subsistence and economy
  • Social organisation – Kinship – Marriage
  • Social organisation
  • Habitation
  • Social behaviour – Socialisation – Child rearing
  • Performing arts
  • Technology – Fire – Fire making
  • Feuds and warfare
  • Hunting, gathering and fishing
  • Culture – Relationship to land
  • Material culture
  • Religion
  • Art
  • Weapons
  • Food
  • Communications
  • Trade and exchange
  • Ngunawal / Ngunnawal people (D3) (NSW SI55-16)
  • Nyangumarta / Nyangumarda people (A61) (WA SF51-10)
  • Ngaanyatjarra people (A38) (WA SG51-08)
  • Yolngu people (NT SD53)
  • Gugu Yau people (Y22) (Qld SD54-04)
  • Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
  • Noongar / Nyungar / Nyungah people (W41) (WA SI50)
  • Manjiljarra / Martu Wangka people (A51.1) (WA SF51-12)
  • Paakantyi / Paakantji / Barkindji people (D12) (NSW SI54-03)
  • Nuenonne / Southeast Tasmania people (Tas SK55-08)
  • Ngarluma people (W38) (WA SF50-07)

  • Aboriginal Australians — Social life and customs

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