| Description |
xxxi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. Wielders of the digging-stick -- II. The social and spiritual background of the Aboriginal child -- III. Childhood -- IV. On the threshold of marriage -- V. The laws of marriage and the needs of the individual -- VI. Rights and duties of women in marriage -- VII. The function of women in the larger social groups -- VIII. The 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 |
| Analysis |
Western Australia |
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Aboriginal women |
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Aboriginal culture |
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Social customs |
| 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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Bunuba people K5.
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Nyikina people K3.
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Jaru people K1.
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Walmajarri people A66.
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Malngin people K30.
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Gija / Kija people K20.
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Gooniyandi people K6.
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Miriwoong / Miriuwung people K29.
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Ceremonies - Women.
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Adolescence - Puberty.
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Religion - Totemism.
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Children.
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Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies.
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Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Sections and subsections.
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Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms.
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Gender relations - Marriage.
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Gender relations - Polygamy.
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Hunting, gathering and fishing.
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Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage.
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Ceremonies - Rain making.
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Gender relations - Division of labour.
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Ceremonies - Secret / sacred.
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Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects.
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Religion - Rites - Increase.
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Body - Decoration.
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Kimberley (W.A.) -- Social life and customs
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Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Social life and customs
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East Kimberley area (WA SD52, SE52)
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Bedford Downs (WA East Kimberley SE52-05)
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Moola Bulla (WA East Kimberley SE52-09)
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West Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51)
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| Author |
Elkin, A. P. (Adolphus Peter), 1891-1979.
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| LC no. |
73008229 |
| ISBN |
0879680563 |
