Description |
xv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Includes index |
Summary |
Analysis of Momega outstation economy; eastern Gunwinggu people; social, geographic setting; dietary analysis; sources of cash income; market replacement values of subsistence foodstuff; market value of art and craft production, mens vs womens; expenditure patterns, consumer goods, capital; price fluctuations over the period of fieldwork; Questions Sahlins original affluence hypothesis; discusses work, labour in subsistence economy; reckoning of time, activity patterns, work density, productivity, composition of hunting and gathering teams, leadership on the hunt; examines system of redistribution, sharing of subsistence produce; influential factors include type of game, seasonal variation, kinship, status of hunter, coresidence; introduction of unemployment benefits, bases for sharing cash; conflict between local values, indigenous social security system and Federal governments system of awarding social security payments, local anomolies in payments; cash sharing and kinship distance, gambling rings, types of card games, division of goods into traditional and market spheres; rules for utilisation of various types of goods; regulation of consumption of bush foods by means of prohibitions and taboos; adaption vs adoption of market goods; discusses ceremonial and market exchange; range of exchange types, ceremonial exchange cycle; economic significance of ceremonial vs market exchange; seasonal migration between township and outstation |
Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians Economic conditions Australia Arnhem Land (N.T.) |
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Economic anthropology Australia Arnhem Land (N.T.) |
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Gunwinggu (Australian people) Economic conditions |
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Hunting and gathering societies Australia Arnhem Land (N.T.) |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 237-246 |
Notes |
Copy 2 of B A468.85/H1 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Economic conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Economic conditions.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Maningrida (N.T.) -- Economic conditions
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Aboriginal Australians -- Maningrida, Northern Territory -- Economic conditions
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Economic conditions
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Maningrida -- Economic conditions
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
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Economic anthropology -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
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Economic anthropology -- Australia -- Maningrida (N.T.)
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Economic anthropology -- Maningrida, Northern Territory
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Economic anthropology -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Maningrida
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Gunwinggu (Australian people)
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Gunwinggu (Australian people) -- Economic conditions.
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia -- Maningrida (N.T.)
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Maningrida, Northern Territory
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Maningrida
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Kunwinjku (Australian people) -- Economic conditions
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Wild foods -- Australia.
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SUBJECT |
Maningrida (N.T.) -- Economic conditions
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Author |
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
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LC no. |
88116570 |
ISBN |
0855751762 |
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