The World of the First AustraliansThe origin of the aborigines, their social organization and structure, economic life, relationship with the land, life cycle: growing up, marriage to old age, religious beliefs, magic and sorcery, law and order, visual art, oral literature, death and afterlife, the aborigines today. |
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THE ABORIGINES IN TIME AND SPACE | 1 |
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE | 25 |
Continued | 46 |
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Aboriginal Australia Aranda areas associated Australian Aborigines bark Basedow Berndt blood body brother called ceremonies Chapter child circumcision clan concerned corpse cultural Daly River dancing dead death descent group designs Djanggawul Dreaming eastern Elkin European example father girl goanna ground Gunwinggu Howitt human husband ibid initiation instance Island Julunggul kangaroo Kimberleys kind kinship Kunapipi living magic main camp marriage marry McCarthy Melville Islands moiety mortuary mother Mountford myth mythical native doctor Ngurunderi Njirana north-eastern Arnhem Land Northern Territory novices painted paperbark patrilineal person Plate Rainbow Snake relation relationship religious rites ritual sacred singing sister Snake social society songs sorcery South Australia speak spear Spencer and Gillen spirit sticks stone Strehlow subincision subsection symbolic tion tjurunga totemic traditional tree tribal tribes ubar unit Victoria Desert Wadi Warner waterhole Wawalag western Arnhem Land Western Australia Western Desert wife woman women Yirrkalla