BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE TO NEW EDITION; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; I. WIELDERS OF THE DIGGING-STICK; II. THE SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL BACKGROUND OF THE ABORIGINAL CHILD; III. CHILDHOOD; IV. ON THE THRESHOLD OF MARRIAGE; V. THE LAWS OF MARRIAGE AND THE NEEDS OF THE INDIVIDUAL; VI. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF WOMEN IN MARRIAGE; VII. THE FUNCTIONS OF WOMEN IN THE LARGER SOCIAL GROUPS; VIII. THE SPIRITUAL HERITAGE OF ABORIGINAL WOMAN; IX. WOMEN'S CEREMONIES; X. WOMEN'S SECRET CORROBOREES; XI. ABORIGINAL WOMAN--SACRED AND PROFANE; BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Summary
First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is--a complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems, beliefs, rituals, and point of view
