Kimberley people : stone age bushmen of today, 1936 / J. R. B. Love ; compiled and published by David M. Welch ; photographers H.R. Balfour ... [et al]
- Bib ID:
- 4650404
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Love, J. R. B. (James Robert Beattie)
- Description:
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- Virginia, N.T. : D. M. Welch, 2009
- xiv, 276 p. : ill., (some col.) ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780977503568
- Series:
- Australian Aboriginal culture series ; 6.
- Summary:
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J. R. B. Love lived and worked with northern Kimberley Aborigines during1914-1915 and 1927-1940, gaining their friendship and learning their language and customs. This book contains his 1936 text and previously unpublished photographs combined with other photographs and information from a number of sources. Love's book describes traditional Kimberley Aboriginal everyday life, including social organisation, kinship systems, belief in child-spirits, rituals, naming people, hunting and food gathering, fire-making, housing, language, warfare, murder, punishment, medicine, ageing, death and funeral practices, infanticide, polygamy, domestic violence, wife-lending, euthanasia, and cannibalism.
- Notes:
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- Previously published: Stone-age bushmen of today : life and adventure among a tribe of savages in North-Western Australia. London : Blackie & Son, 1936.
- Includes bibliographic references.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Worora (Australian people)
- Cannibalism
- Sex relations - Extramarital
- Animals - Invertebrates - Crustacea and molluscs - Beche-de-mer / Trepang
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Death - Mourning
- Weapons - Spears
- Body - Scarification
- Substance use - Smoking / Tobacco
- Food - Preparation - Cooking
- Language - Personal names
- Hunting
- Stories and motifs - Insects
- Psychology - Dreams and symbolism
- Gender relations - Division of labour
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Culture
- Reproduction - Childbirth
- Technology - Utensils
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Art - Rock art - Retouching
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Children
- Technology - Stone - Points
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Bullroarers
- Communications - Messengers
- Art - Subjects - Wandjina
- Environment - Land management - Fire
- Reproduction - Conception
- Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Avoidance relationships
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Religion - Rites - Increase
- Glenelg River (W Vic SJ54-07, SJ54-08)
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- Copyright:
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- Material type:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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