Mortality, mourning and mortuary practices in indigenous Australia / edited by Katie Glaskin ... [et al.]
- Bib ID:
- 4548690
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008
- xx, 237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780754674498
- 0754674495
- Series:
- Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
- Summary:
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Annotation pending.
- Full contents:
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- Sorry business is Yapa way : Warlpiri mortuary rituals as embodied practice / Yasmine Musharbash
- Solidarity in shared loss : death-related observances among the Martu of the Western Desert / Myrna Tonkinson
- Death and health : the resilience of "sorry business" in the Kutjungka region of Western Australia / Brian F. McCoy
- Time wounds : death, grieving and grievance in the northern Kimberley / Anthony Redmond
- A personal reflection on a saltwater man and the cumulative effects of loss / Katie Glaskin
- Social death and disenfranchised grief : an Alyawarr case study / Craig Elliott
- "Promise me you'll come to my funeral" : putting a value on Wiradjuri life through death / Gaynor Macdonald
- Death, family and disrespect in a northern Queensland town / Sally Babidge
- A place to rest : dying, residence, and community stability in remote Arnhem Land / Marcus Barber
- A life in words : history and society in Saibai Island (Torres Strait) tombstones / Richard Davis
- "We don't want to chase 'em away" : hauntology in central Cape York Peninsula / Benjamin Richard Smith.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Funeral customs and rites
- Aboriginal Australians -- Death
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Australia
- Sites - Mortuary sites and cemeteries
- Religion - Dreaming - Ancestor spirits
- Death - Mortuary customs - Tombstone opening ceremonies
- Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Deceased persons
- Ngarinyin / Ungarinyin people (K18) (WA SE52-01)
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Health status - Morbidity and mortality rates
- Manjiljarra / Martu Wangka people (A51.1) (WA SF51-12)
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Mortuary objects - Coffins
- Wiradjuri people (D10) (NSW SI55-07)
- Yolngu people (NT SD53)
- Alyawarr / Alyawarre people (C14) (NT SF53-07)
- Religion - Dreaming - Ghosts
- Cultural protocols - Mourning
- Death - Human remains - Reburial
- Death - Mourning
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Cultural protocols - Mourning - Name restrictions
- Social organisation - Kinship
- Kukatja people (A68) (WA SF52-02)
- Ceremonies - Smoking ceremonies
- Religions - Christianity - Ceremonies - Funerals
- Australia -- Social life and customs
- Charters Towers (E Qld SF55-02)
- Western Desert (WA SF51, SF52, SG51, SG52)
- Saibai Island (Qld TSI SC54-08)
- Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52)
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
- Coen (Qld NE Cape York SD54-08)
- Blue Mud Bay (East Arnhem Land SD53-07)
- Torres Strait Islands (Qld TSI SC54, SC55-05)
- Pilbara area (WA SF50, SF51, SG50)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Glaskin, Katie
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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