Download or read book Australian Aboriginal Religion written by Ronald Murray Berndt and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1974 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Death in the Tiwi Islands written by Eric Venbrux and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book is an extended case study of the social and legal ramifications of a homicide in a Tiwi community. The author gives a detailed account of the life of the victim and the events surrounding his murder, and describes the cycle of mortuary and seasonal rituals with their elaborate songs and dances. He also looks at the dramatic changes in Tiwi society over the last 100 years, and examines how the Tiwi have responded to the intervention of Western culture. In many areas, he finds, they have adapted and retained their own value system. Venbrux's account of the investigation and trial following the homicide provides timely and important insights into the issue of Aboriginal People, traditional law and the Australian criminal justice system. Through the strong narrative thread of this book we are presented with an incisive picture of a culture amid conflict and change.
Download or read book Aboriginal Woman Sacred and Profane written by Phyllis Kaberry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is - a complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems, beliefs, rituals and point of view. This groundbreaking and enduring study was researched in North-West Australia between 1935 and 1936 and was written by a woman who truly pioneered the study of gender in anthropology
Download or read book Two Rituals in South and Central Arnhem Land written by Adolphus Peter Elkin and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Australian Aborigines written by Adolphus Peter Elkin and published by Angus & Robertson Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1938; this edition is a revised version of The Australian Aborigines; how to understand them 4th ed; New preface discusses the history of the book; Antiquity, origin and migrations, language information; Living off the land, seasons, hunting, artefacts, psychological adaptation, shelters, nomadism; Position amongst the peoples of the world; Tribes and inter-tribal gatherings, customs, local groups, family, kinship, classificatory system, types of systems (Ngarinjen, Nyul Nyul, Aranda, Luritcha, Karadjeri, Kariera); Social groups, section and moieties, alternative and irregular marriages; Kinship avoidance, taboos, methods of obtaining a wife, marriage of old men and young girls, pirauru relationship; Totemism; Secret life and initiation, missionary problems; Meaning and social function of rites; Philosophy and beliefs, increase rites, mythology and mythological figures - sky heroes, mother-goddess cult, rainbow serpent; Art and rituals - 8 art regions, bark paintings, carving; Music and dancing, sacred chanting, musical instruments, secular music, musical patterns, Songman, description of dances, diffusion, poetry, song and chant and cycles; Medicine men and magic, causes of illness and death, making of medicine men; Death, inquest and revenge, burial rites, fate after death; Briefly summarizes the phases of AboriginalEuropean contact and past govt. policies, growing Aboriginal involvement and the development of Aboriginal service and welfare organizations; Mixed-bloods, disintegration of traditional life, and the problems of prejudice; Aboriginality and cultural identity.
Download or read book On Aboriginal Religion written by W. E. H. Stanner and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murinbada tribe; 1. The lineaments of sacrifice striking resemblances between the form of a bullroarer ceremony and the form of sacrificial ceremonies in more developed religion Ceremony of Punj; 2. Sacramentalism rite and myth - relations between Punj, and circumcision, totemism (all types), myth relating to Punj, other myths, relations between myth and rite, sequences of conduct; 3. Symbolism in the higher rites geometric idiom of ceremonies, symbolizing processes and types 4. The design plan of a riteless myth - the rainbow serpent, the problem of myth variation, three fragmentary accounts (Marithiel, Wagaman, Nangiomeri), analysis of myth, structural plans of 3 dramas; Myth of Kunmanggur, myth of Punj, rite of Punj 5. The design plans of mythless rites circumcision, mortuary, myth of Kulpi; 6. Cosmos and society made correlative - positive features of Murinbada religion, the dynamical or integrative aspect of the rites, and the underlying philosophy; A concluding note - explanation of series and viewpoint from which it was written.
Download or read book The First Australians written by Ronald Murray Berndt and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origin, physical description, language diversity, religion, environmental differences; tribal boundaries linked with mythology, totemic centres, beliefs; Arnhem Land notes on descent, fishing spears, canoes, rafts, log canoes with Macassan-type sails; fish traps, nets; variety of weapons & artefacts; Brief notes on huts, Great Victoria Desert, Arnhem Land, R. Murray, Stirling R., Daly R. - preservation of food, fruit, fish, animal meat; Trade (Arnhem Land) - 6 main ceremonies; Djamalag, Rom, Midjan, Wurbu, Mamurung, Njalaidj; trade routes, list of goods traded; Childhood, education, initiation, marriage, agegrades, care of elderly; Spritual beliefs Djanggawul, Banaitja, Kunapipi & others, brief reference to Daramulan & Baiami (N.S.W.), Murunderi & Nepeli (S.A.); heroes of Lake Eyre, Great Victoria Desert and Kimberleys, Northern Territory tribes, relevant mythology; secular myths retold; Ritual and description of increase ceremonies, love magic rituals, dances, notes on sacred, secular, mourning and gossip songs; Artefacts, wooden carvings (W.A., N.T.), rock and cave paintings (Kimberleys); Law & order, taboos, punishment, peace making ceremony (Arnhem Land); organized meetings by Narrinyerri (mouth of R. Murray) unique, behaviour patterns, pre-marital & extra-marital sexual expression All types of magic, rainmakers, charms; Mortuary rites, types of burial (Great Victoria Desert, Arnhem Land), mourning; Foreign influence before European settlement, present day culture contact situation, land rights; Three songs from Arnhem Land in English, drawings show bark paintings, crayon drawings from Arnhem Land.
Download or read book People of Two Times written by Northern Territory Tourist Commission and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview of traditional culture; culture contact and change; land rights.
Download or read book ROM written by Stephen Aubrey Wild and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROM is a 'ritual of diplomacy', performed to establish or re-establish friendly relations with neighbouring communities by presenting them with elaborately-decorated totemic poles. The entire process of making, binding, and decorating the poles can extend over weeks and involves successive sessions of song and dance with culminate in a presentation ceremony.
Download or read book Australian National Bibliography 1992 written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aboriginal Religions in Australia written by Françoise Dussart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 25 years there has been an explosion of interest in the Aboriginal religions of Australia and this anthology provides a variety of recent writings, by a wide range of scholars. Australian Aboriginal Religions are probably the oldest extant religious systems. Over some 50,000 years they have coped with change and re-invented themselves in an astonishingly creative way. The Dreaming, the mythical time when the Ancestor Spirits shaped the territories of the Aborigines and laid down a moral and ritual law for their occupants, is the fundamental religious reality. It is the basis of the Aborigines's view of their land or country, kinship relationships, ritual and art. However, the Dreaming is not a static principle since it is interpreted in different ways, as in the extraordinary movement in contemporary indigenous painting, and in attempts at an accommodation with Christianity. The contributions of anthropologists, cultural historians, philosophers of religion and others are included in this anthology which not only guides readers through the literature but also ensures this still largely inaccessible material is available to a wider range of readers and non-specialist students and academics.
Download or read book The Feathered Serpent written by Roland E. Robinson and published by Sydney : Edwards & Shaw. This book was released on 1956 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field work 1954; myths from Haasts Bluff, Areyonga, Milingimbi, Port Keats, Daly River & Beswick (near Roper River); all stories relating to the lifeforce of nature, manifesting itself through life cycle & the eternal source and meaning of the spirit of life; tales told and translated by men of the tribes (Kuppapoingo, Jumbapoingo, Birrikilli, Miarr-Miarr, Leaquwulmirree, Murinbata, Djamunjun, Djauan, Ngalarkan, Aranda, Luritja, Pitjantjara).
Download or read book The Australian Aborigines written by Kenneth Maddock and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1982 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: marriage & kinship rules (Aranda, Kariera), age as a factor in marriage, widows, effects of late marriage, use value & exchange value of women; Chap.4, p.72-108; The order of the world - class systems & their structure, moieties, sections & semi moieties, sub sections, gives equivalent systems for Dalabon & Maiali, diagram shows correlation of Gidjingali kin categories & classes, classes in the cosmic order (Dalabon, Yukum, Wolmeri, Murinbata, Booandik; Chap.5, p.109-130; The world creative powers - cosmology, origin theories, All - Father beliefs, role of Dhuramoolan in Wiradthuri Burbung cult (from R.H.
Download or read book Dingo Makes Us Human written by Deborah Bird Rose and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2000-08-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography explores the culture of the Yarralin people in the Northern Territory.
Download or read book Aboriginal Woman written by Phyllis Mary Kaberry and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kunapipi written by Ronald Murray Berndt and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distribution of the Kunapipi cult; Yirrkala ritual and songs in text and translation; dreams recorded, native interpretation, textual transcription; sketch map showing diffusion of cult in southern, W. central Northern Territory and adjacent regions; interpretative drawings of ritual; mythological basis, Ma; ra ritual described and songs in texts and translation given in comparison; Alawa Kadjari myth and song cycle.
Download or read book Adam in Ochre written by Colin Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land; mainly Oenpelli region; describes rituals, religious beliefs, bodily decoration, myths and womens status.
