Desert People: A Study of the Walbiri Aborigines of Central Australia

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANA –

First Edition.

• xix, 348 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

  • Bibliography: p. [341]-342.
  • (No jacket, name on prelims)

  #101025

• 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.

• AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Sex relations – Extramarital
  • Religion – After death beliefs
  • Social organisation – Kinship – Marriage – Wrong marriage
  • Reproduction – Childbirth
  • Social organisation – Kinship – Systems – Moieties
  • Economic sectors – Agriculture and horticulture – Pastoral industry
  • Indigenous knowledge – Botany
  • Language – Vocabulary – Plant names
  • Gender relations – Elopement
  • Gender relations – Betrothal
  • Settlement and contacts – Explorers
  • Social organisation – Kinship – Kinship terms
  • Adolescence – Puberty
  • Religion – Totemism
  • Initiation – Subincision
  • Ceremonies – Initiation
  • Demography – Family and household characteristics
  • Death – Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
  • Social organisation – Relationships – Joking
  • Family – Paternity – Illegitimacy
  • Magic and sorcery – Clever people
  • Initiation – Circumcision
  • Family – Parents
  • Children
  • Death – Mourning
  • Social behaviour – Socialisation – Child rearing
  • Social organisation – Avoidance rules – Avoidance relationships
  • Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
  • Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
  • Northern Territory – Central NT

  Subject:

  Warlpiri (Australian people) — Social life and customs