| Description |
xxi, 602 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
The aborigines in space and time -- Social organization and structure -- The basis of economic life -- The life cycle : growing up -- The life cycle : marriage to old age -- Religious belief and practice : totemism and mythology -- Religious belief and practice : ritual -- Magic and sorcery -- Law and order -- Art and aesthetic expression -- Death and the afterlife The aborigines today -- An overview : the past and the present -- Australian aboriginal studies |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians - History |
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Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs |
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Australian Aborigines. Cultural processes |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [549]-596 |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Culture
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Ethnology -- Australia.
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| Author |
Berndt, Catherine H. (Catherine Helen), 1918-1994, author
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| LC no. |
78301149 |
| ISBN |
0725402725 |
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