People, countries, and the rainbow serpent : systems of classification among the Lardil of Mornington Island / David McKnight
- Bib ID:
- 2072537
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McKnight, David, 1935-2006
- Description:
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
- x, 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195096215 (hardback)
- Series:
- Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics.
- Summary:
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Study of the Lardil classification of space, people, plants, animals, totemic beings and the Rainbow Serpent; understandings of conception, birth and death - constitution of paternity and maternity; relation to place and economic rights; initiation - language acquisition, circumcision and subincision; kinship system and terminology - subsections; personal names -role of nicknames; social space and the relationship to land; folk taxonomy / ethnotaxonomy - ethnozoology and ethnobotany; totemic classification; analysis of myth and ritual - Rainbow Serpent (relation to elements of weather and flood); concepts of transgression and taboo - body and sickness; role of dreams and its relation to the Dreamtime and its iconography - dance and graphic elements.
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. Introduction
- Ch. 2. Coming into Being and Going out of Being
- Ch. 3. People as Kin and Affines
- Ch. 4. Personal Names and Nicknames
- Ch. 5. Places and Countries
- Ch. 6. Lardil Ethnozoology and Ethnobotany
- Ch. 7. Demiin Ethnozoology and Ethnobotany
- Ch. 8. Marlda Kangka Ethnozoology and Ethnobotany
- Ch. 9. Subsections and Totemic Classification
- Ch. 10. Thuwathu the Rainbow Serpent
- Ch. 11. Markirii Sickness and the Rainbow Serpent
- Ch. 12. Dreamtime and Iconography
- Epilogue: Some Final Thoughts on Mythology, Land, and Kinship.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-262) and index.
- Subject:
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- Lardil (Australian people) -- Kinship
- Lardil (Australian people) -- Ethnobiology
- Lardil (Australian people) -- Rites and ceremonies
- Mythology, Lardil
- Cognition and culture -- Australia -- Mornington Island (Qld.)
- Anthropological linguistics -- Australia -- Mornington Island (Qld.)
- Lardil language -- Etymology -- Names
- Lardil language -- Grammar -- Terminology
- Language - Vocabulary - Language and peoples names
- Art - Art motifs
- Indigenous knowledge - World view
- Indigenous knowledge - Zoology
- Lardil people (G38) (Qld SE54-01)
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Indigenous knowledge - Botany
- Language - Vocabulary - Environment and natural phenomena
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems
- Dance - Ceremonial
- Language - Vocabulary - Human classification
- Social organisation
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Language - Vocabulary - Nicknames
- Religion - Totemism
- Art - Body art
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Stories and motifs - Rainbow serpent
- Reproduction - Conception
- Ceremonies - Rain making
- Environment - Climate and weather
- Mornington Island (Qld.) -- Social life and customs
- Mornington Island (Qld Gulf Wellesley Islands SE54-01)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2076 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2006
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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