Tiwi wives : a study of the women of Melville Island, North Australia / Jane C. Goodale
- Bib ID:
- 1987317
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter), 1926-
- Description:
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- Seattle : University of Washington Press c1971
- xxiv, 368 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
- Series:
- Monograph (American Ethnological Society) ; 51.
- Summary:
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p.3-23; Describes Melville Island (gives myth of creation of island), history (Malay contact, early European discoveries); concepts of land ownership (map shows approximate location of owner groups), tables show group affiliations; matrilineal descent groups; age divisions (gives vocabulary of terms); p.24- 42; Camp and camp life, shelters, rearing of female children, childhood, naming, discipline to children; p.43-68; Marriage, marital relations, puberty, menstrual taboos, choice of son in law, relationship with future mother in law, types of marriage contracts; p.69-129; Social structure, matrilineal sibling sets, phratries, moieties, marriage exchange, patrilineal sibling sets, residential groups & landholding groups, kinship & marriage contracts, gives examples from two genealogies explaining contracts; p.130-150; Pregnancy & motherhood, extra marital relations, battle after elopement, conception beliefs & dreams, pregnancy beliefs, killing of one twin, methods of producing abortion, birth, adoption; p.151-182; Economic role, division of labour, food - mens & womens foods listed, womens hunting equipment dogs, axe, containers, fire; menss equipment spears, canoes & paddles, throwing sticks, clubs; hunting methods, food preparation & distribution, food beliefs, control of resources, special food plants & their treatment (cycad nuts, wild cashew, kulama yams); p.183-225; Kulama ceremony, 1954 ceremony described in detail, English version only of songs given, body decorations, dancing, initiation, age of initiation, body decoration, compares 1912 ceremony witnessed by Spencer; p.226-253; Old age, menopause, illness, sorcery, remedies for sickness, death, gives English text of myth of death, spirit beliefs, after death beliefs, burial, gives examples of rituals for infant boy & elderly man, also describes ritual for baptised man; p.254-329; Pukamani, detailed discussion of ceremony stage by stage, taboos, body decorations & ornaments, sending messengers and selecting workers, Pukamani and kinship, ritual roles & duties, preliminary rituals, songs & dances, song styles, gives English versions only of examples, subjects of songs, dance forms, ornaments & ritual objects, payment, grave poles & their manufacture; economic aspects; final rituals, describes ceremony for adult woman; p.330-339; Tiwi world view & values, spirit beliefs, sexual relations, personal achievements; p.341-349; Glossary of c.250 items (general vocabulary kinship terms, ritual names etc.)
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 351-357.
- Subject:
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- Women, Tiwi
- Tiwi (Australian people) -- Social life and customs
- Communications - Messengers
- Reproduction - Childbirth
- Trade and exchange
- Children
- Weapons - Clubs and fighting sticks
- Music - Vocal
- Religion - Rites - Increase
- Reproduction - Abortion
- Religion - Rites - Kulama yam
- Psychology - Dreams and symbolism
- Gender relations - Elopement
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Moieties
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Adolescence - Puberty
- Reproduction - Menstruation
- Body - Decoration
- Social behaviour - Socialisation - Child rearing
- Aged
- Social organisation - Kinship - Matrilineal systems
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Weapons - Spears
- Land rights - Ownership
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Child welfare - Adoption and fostering
- Technology - Stone - Axes / hatchets
- Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Avoidance relationships
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Mortuary objects - Poles
- Transport - Water - Paddles
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Family - Mothers in law
- Tiwi language (N20) (NT SC52-16)
- Language - Vocabulary - Human classification
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Language - Personal names
- Indigenous knowledge - World view
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Feuds and warfare
- Sex relations - Extramarital
- Family - Siblings
- Environment - Land management - Fire
- Tiwi people (N20) (NT SC52-16)
- Reproduction - Conception
- Health status - Child health
- Food - Plants - Yams
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Patrilineal systems
- Weapons - Throwing sticks
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Language - Vocabulary - Plant names
- Language - Vocabulary - Food, cooking and fire
- Hunting
- Plants - Cycads
- Religions - Christianity - Ceremonies - Baptisms and christenings
- History - Genealogy and family history
- Gathering
- Ceremonies - Women
- Gender relations - Division of labour
- Yermalner / Melville Island (NT SC52-16)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- American Ethnological Society
- Copyright:
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