Daughters of the dreaming / Diane Bell
- Bib ID:
- 1289257
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bell, Diane, 1943-
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1993
- 342 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1863734414 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Based on PhD research; womens roles in desert society; change and continuity in womens roles; womens ritual and ideology; relationship between mens and womens roles in ritual; gender specific constructs; relationship to land; kinship and marriage; epilogue added to 2nd edition to answer theoretical issues raised by reviewers of 1st edition.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Previous ed.: Melbourne : McPhee Gribble ; Sydney : George Allen & Unwin, 1983.
- Bibliography: p. 307-326.
- Subject:
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- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory
- Ethnology -- Northern Territory
- Warumungu people (C18) (NT SE53-10)
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Kaytetye / Kaytej people (C13) (NT SF53-06)
- Alyawarr / Alyawarre people (C14) (NT SF53-07)
- Social behaviour - Roles
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Ceremonies - Women
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Art - Body art
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Sites - Dreaming tracks
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Warrabri / Ali Curung / Alekerenge (Central NT SF53-02)
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1993
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