People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent: Systems of Classification Among the Lardil of Mornington IslandStudy of the Lardil classification of space, people, plants, animals, totemic beings and the Rainbow Serpent; understandings of conception, birth and death - constitution of paternity and maternity; relation to place and economic rights; initiation - language acquisition, circumcision and subincision; kinship system and terminology - subsections; personal names -role of nicknames; social space and the relationship to land; folk taxonomy / ethnotaxonomy - ethnozoology and ethnobotany; totemic classification; analysis of myth and ritual - Rainbow Serpent (relation to elements of weather and flood); concepts of transgression and taboo - body and sickness; role of dreams and its relation to the Dreamtime and its iconography - dance and graphic elements. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Coming into Being and Going out of Being | 15 |
People as Kin and Affines | 33 |
Copyright | |
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Aborigines barramundi benyin bird Birii boomerang Burketown bush camp child claim classification conception sign Creek cross-cousins dance dancers Demiin Demiin term Denham Island Diwaliwal Dreamtime dugong Dugong River dulmada elder fieldwork fish flying fox Forsyth Island goanna hunting identified initiation Jacko Jirnjirn Kaiadilt kinship known kurrikurrijbi land lexemes lightning luruku m!ii Maarnbil mainland mangrove markirii markirii werne Marlda Kangka marriage married Memmott mirndiyan mission moiety Mornington Island mother's brother mother's father myth names never ngajburr ngama nicknames normally occurred pandanus particularly patrilineal rain Rainbow Serpent recorded reef reference regarded relationship rituals rock cod Roughsey sea turtle semi-moiety sexual shark Sharp shellfish sign language sister snake spear species stingray story place subincision subsection system swamp turtle Sydney Island taboo taxa taxonomy thii thungal thuu Thuwathu totemic tree tribes wallaby warama water lily wave Wellesley Islands Wik-mungkan woman women wujburr Yangkaal yarburr