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Author Edwards, W. H. (William Howell)

Title Traditional aboriginal society / edited by W.H. Edwards
Edition Second edition
Published South Yarra : Macmillan Education Australia, 1998

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Description xv, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents Traditional aboriginal learning: how I learned as a Pitjantjatjara child / Nganyintja Ilyatjari -- The art of Northern Australia / Howard Morphy -- Always ask: resource use and land ownership among Pintupi Aborigines of the Australian Western Desert / Fred R. Myers -- Hunter-gatherer subsistence production in Arnhem Land: the original affluence hypothesis re-examined / J.C. Altman -- Australian Aborigines in a rich environment / A. Chase, P. Sutton -- Descended from father, belonging to country: rights to land in the Australian Western Desert / Annette Hamilton -- Grandmothers' law, company business and succession in changing Aboriginal land tenure systems / Marcia Langton -- Indirect exchange in a symmetrical system: marriage alliance in the Western Desert of Australia / Lee Sackett -- Mardudjarra kinship / R. Tonkinson -- Leadership in Aboriginal society / W.H. Edwards -- Aboriginal political life / L.R. Hiatt -- All bosses are not created equal / Christopher Anderson -- Traditional Aboriginal society and its law / Australian Law Reform Commission -- The Dreaming / W.E.H. Stanner -- Consciousness and responsibility in an Australian Aboriginal religion / Deborah Bird Rose -- Aboriginal women's religion: a shifting law of the land / Diane Bell -- Exploring an Aboriginal land ethic / Deborah Bird Rose -- Continuities of Wiradjuri tradition / Gaynor Macdonald
Summary This book of readings has been compiled by Bill Edwards with two consistent themes: to provide a cross-section of articles covering the main themes related to the study of human societies; and to make accessible for students enduring articles that may be otherwise hard to find, and which contain a good proportion of descriptive material as well as raising analytical issues. The chapters cover the main themes related to the study of traditional Aboriginal society: systems of etiquette, art, economic life, kinship and marriage, politics and leadership, law, religion, and social change
Analysis Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal customary law
Aboriginal land rights
Aborigines
Social conditions
Social customs
Notes Includes index
Previously published : South Melbourne : Macmillan, 1987
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience For tertiary students
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians.
Author Edwards, W. H. (William Howell)
LC no. 98155471
ISBN 0732940826
073294094X
9780732940829
9780732940942