Desert people : a study of the Walbiri Aborigines of Central Australia / by M.J. Meggitt
- Bib ID:
- 753055
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Meggitt, Mervyn J., 1924-
- Description:
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- Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1962
- xix, 348 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0207130051
- 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.
- Full contents:
- Includes index
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [341]-342.
- Subject:
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- Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs
- Sex relations - Extramarital
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage - Wrong marriage
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Reproduction - Childbirth
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Moieties
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry
- Indigenous knowledge - Botany
- Language - Vocabulary - Plant names
- Gender relations - Elopement
- Gender relations - Betrothal
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Adolescence - Puberty
- Religion - Totemism
- Initiation - Subincision
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Demography - Family and household characteristics
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Social organisation - Relationships - Joking
- Family - Paternity - Illegitimacy
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Family - Parents
- Children
- Death - Mourning
- Social behaviour - Socialisation - Child rearing
- Social organisation - Avoidance rules - Avoidance relationships
- Northern Territory - Central NT
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1962
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