Desert people : a study of the Walbiri Aborigines of Central Australia / M.J. Meggitt
- Bib ID:
- 712422
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Meggitt, Mervyn J., 1924-
- Description:
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- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1965
- xix, 348 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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Ethnography of the Walbiri (Waljbiri); physical environment, includes table of Walbiri flora, with language and Latin names, uses; history from 1862, contacts with Australian explorers, pastoral settlement, violent conflict, establishment of Aboriginal settlements; contemporary distribution, numbers, relations with neighbouring groups, ethnocentrism; local organisation, sections, subsections, personal mobility in relation to religious significance of country; kinship system, residential family unit, marital relations, discord, elopements, adultery; socialisation, relations between parents and children, other kinfolk; moieties, descent; progressions through agegrades; law, social control; betrothal, marriage, childbirth; initiation, circumcision, subincision; death, funerary practices, child vs adult, man vs woman, causes of death, mourning.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 341-342.
- Subject:
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- Warlpiri (Australian people)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Gender relations - Polygamy
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Religion - Totemism
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Moieties
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Environment - Climate and weather
- Environment - Biodiversity - Plants
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Death - Mourning
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems
- Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1965
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