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 |
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Aboriginal customary law |
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Aboriginal land rights |
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Aborigines |
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Social conditions |
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Social customs |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Previously published : South Melbourne : Macmillan, 1987 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Audience |
For tertiary students |
Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Author |
Edwards, W. H. (William Howell)
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LC no. |
98155471 |
ISBN |
0732940826 |
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073294094X |
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9780732940829 |
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9780732940942 |
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