Knowledge and secrecy in an Aboriginal religion / Ian Keen
- Bib ID:
- 1652972
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Keen, Ian
- Description:
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- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994
- xviii, 347 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0198279000 (alkaline paper)
- 0195507525 (paperback)
- Series:
- Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology.
- Summary:
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Yolngu concept of knowledge; religious practices; interpretation of Dreaming events, country and ceremonies; initiation; revelation, transmission and control of knowledge; religious secrecy; definition of the Yolngu - social and historical context; constitution of religious belief - the Dreaming, spirit beings; variation in the interpretation of myth - stories of the Djangkawu sisters; social composition - groups, kinship classification, language, marriage and polygamy, leadership; relations to land- concept of country; totemic landscape; land disputes; rights to knowledge of the sacra; varieties of ceremonies (Rom, Garma, Djungguwan, Madayin, circumcision , wake and purification); associated songs, designs and sacred objects (rangga); role of secrecy; description of ceremonies; relation to gender and age distinctions; revelation, control and transmission of esoteric knowledge in secret and public domains - control of space and encoding; gender roles and power; religious universalism; Gunapipi ceremony and the interpretation of the Wagilak sisters myth; the adjustment movement and the Christian Revival - syncretism between Christian and Yolngu beliefs; ritual; mythology - culture heroes, snake; contemporary understanding of culture.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [315]-328.
- Subject:
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- Yolngu (Australian people) -- Religion
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Religion
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Ranggas
- Wagilak / Wawilak language (N106) (NT SD53-07)
- Sites - Dreaming tracks
- Land rights - Claims, disputes, hearings
- Religion - Totemism
- W©Þgilak / Wawilak people (N106) (NT SD53-07)
- W©Þgilak / Wawilak language (N106) (NT SD53-07)
- Gender relations - Polygamy
- Gender relations - Gender roles
- Yolngu languages (NT SD53)
- Wagilak / Wawilak people (N106) (NT SD53-07)
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Stories and motifs - Snakes
- Stories and motifs - Cultural heroes
- Music - Vocal
- Ceremonies - Rom ceremonies
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Stories and motifs - Wawalag Sisters
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Religions - Christianity
- Art - Body art
- Yolngu people (NT SD53)
- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Religion
- Arnhem Land (NT)
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- Publication date:
- 1994
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