| Description |
xxxi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / A.P. Elkin -- I. Wielders of the Digging-Stick -- II. Social and Spiritual Background of the Aboriginal Child -- III. Childhood -- IV. On the Threshold of Marriage -- V. Laws of Marriage and the Needs of the Individual -- VI. Rights and Duties of Women in Marriage -- VII. Function of Women in the Larger Social Groups -- VIII. Spiritual Heritage of Aboriginal Woman -- IX. Women's Ceremonies -- X. Women's Secret Corroborees -- XI. Aboriginal Woman -- Sacred and Profane |
| Summary |
"Providing remarkable insights into Australian Aboriginal society through the vantage point of women, Aboriginal Woman Sacred and Profane illustrates the importance of the study of gender in anthropology. Phyllis Kaberry was the first anthropologist to examine and understand the fullness of Aboriginal women's lives, which had hitherto been classified as restricted and uninvolved with religious practice. She portrayed the Aboriginal woman in a realistic light, as a complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems, beliefs, rituals and points of view ... In her new preface, Sandy Toussaint looks at how Aboriginal Woman Sacred and Profane came to be written, the book's original context and its influence on the study of gender in anthropology"--BOOK JACKET [2003] |
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This classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is--a complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems, beliefs, rituals, and point of view |
| Notes |
Reprint of the 1939 ed., published by G. Rutledge, London |
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Revision of the author's thesis, London, 1938 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 279-283 |
| Notes |
Reprint. Originally published London : George Routledge, 1939 |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Women.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.)
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley Region (W.A.)
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley Region
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Women -- Australia.
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Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Social life and customs.
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Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Women, Aboriginal Australian.
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| SUBJECT |
Kimberley (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82167172 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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| Author |
Elkin, A. P. (Adolphus Peter), 1891-1979.
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| LC no. |
73008229 |
| ISBN |
0879680563 |
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