Description |
xxxi, 624 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, general tables ; 26 cm |
Series |
Miegunyah Press series ; no. 11 |
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Miegunyah Press series ; no. 11
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Contents |
Includes index |
Summary |
Extensive and detailed ethnography of the Yaraldi (a dialect unit of the Kukabrak/Narrinyeri); physical environment; economic geography; population and disease; social composition, territorial organisation and their neighbours; kinship, clan structure and hierarchy; marriage, polygamy and the status of women - sexual relations, illegitimacy, elopement; genealogies of Albert Karloan and Pinkie Mack; maps of Brinkley Reserve and Murray Bridge; avoidance relationships; clan council; use comedy an examples of humour; trials of sorcery; subsistence economy; seasonality and division of time; hunting, fishing and gathering techniques; implements and equipment - canoes, spears, spearthrowers, clubs, boomerangs, shields, traps and snares, nets, baskets, mats; food preparation; food preservation; cloak and rug making; extraction of animal oils; trade and exchange items; exchange relationships - the Ngengampi; food taboos; conception beliefs, spirit child and soul, pregnancy prevention, infanticide, childbirth; socialization - infancy and childhood, naming; sexual relations in childhood, puberty rites - cicatrisation, beliefs about menstruation, defloration; male initiation (associated games and ritual); marriage, elopement and other sexual relations; love magic; healing magic - familiars; the spirit world - the dead and other nature spirits; ceremonies, song types and their composition; mythic deities, culture heroes - Ngurnderi, Waiyungari and the wives of Nepeli; other mythic beings - moon woman, birds (crow, crane, jay, magpie, pelican, native companion, emu), animals (water rat, whale, possum), amphibians, water, snake, fire; significance of the miwi and its use; reasons for, protection against, materials, methods and forms of sorcery; death and mortuary rituals; causes of death; summary of precontact culture and post- contact change; includes appendices 1) Kukabrak neighbours and dialectal units; 2) Kukabrak clans; 3) clan lands; 4) texts and translatins; 5) genealogical tables; 6) traditional foods; 7) songs and translations |
Analysis |
Aboriginal culture |
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History |
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Murray River |
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Narrinyeri people |
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South Australia |
Notes |
Includes indexes |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 597-601 |
Notes |
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Murray River Estuary (N.S.W.-S. Aust.)
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Murray River Region (S. Aust.) -- Social life and customs
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Aboriginal Australians -- Murray River Estuary (N.S.W.-S.A.)
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Murray River Region (N.S.W.-S.A.) -- Social life and customs
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Aboriginal Australians -- Study and teaching -- Australia -- South Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- South Australia -- Murray River Estuary
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- South Australia -- Murray River Region -- Social life and customs
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- South Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Central Australia -- Social life and customs.
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Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- Cultural assimilation.
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Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs.
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Narrinyeri (Australian people)
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SUBJECT |
Murray River Region (N.S.W.-S.A.) -- History
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Author |
Berndt, Catherine H. (Catherine Helen), 1918-1994.
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Stanton, John E.
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LC no. |
00002135 |
ISBN |
0522844278 |
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