Extending the tracks : a cross-reductionistic approach to Australian aboriginal male initiation rites / Monica Engelhart
- Bib ID:
- 540575
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Engelhart, Monica
- Description:
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- Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1998
- 251 p. : map ; 25 cm. + 1 abstract (1 sheet ; 21 cm.)
- ISBN:
- 9122018026
- Series:
- Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm studies in comparative religion, 0562-1070 ; 34.
- Summary:
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Comparison of initiation rituals from northern, central and south-east Australia; review of previous approaches and sources; includes overview and summary of traditional Aboriginal culture - economy, social structure, territoriality, the Dreaming, conception beliefs, women's ritual role, totemism; mythological basis for initiation amongst the Walbiri, Murgin (Djungguan) and the south-east (Kuringal); associated bodily operations - circumcision, tooth evulsion, cicatrisation and their interpretation; food and other taboos; social dimensions; modes of instruction and the type of information imparted to initiates; survey of interpretations of ritual; psychoanalytic, social and symbolic interpretations of initiation; argues for initiation as a process of "mapping"
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction: Lost in the Wilderness
- 2. The Way of the Wanderers
- 3. Three Roads to Maleness
- 4. The Road of Suffering
- 5. Walking Together
- 6. The Road to Knowledge
- 7. Ritual: A Cross-Road of Theories
- 8. Explaining Initiation: The Rough Trail
- 9. The World Mapped.
- Notes:
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- Errata slip inserted.
- Thesis (doctoral)--Stockholms Universitet, 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-248) and index.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies
- Initiation rites -- Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Indigenous knowledge - World view
- Body - Decoration - Body modification
- Anthropology - Theory and criticism
- Religion - Totemism
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Ceremonies
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Yolngu people (NT SD53)
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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