Author : Mervyn J. Meggitt
Publisher : [Sydney] Angus and Robertson [c1962]
ISBN 13 : 9780207130052
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)
Book Synopsis Desert People by : Mervyn J. Meggitt
Download or read book Desert People written by Mervyn J. Meggitt and published by [Sydney] Angus and Robertson [c1962]. This book was released on 1962 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnography of the Walbiri (Waljbiri); physical environment, includes table of Walbiri flora, with language and Latin names, uses; history from 1862, contacts with Australian explorers, pastoral settlement, violent conflict, establishment of Aboriginal settlements; contemporary distribution, numbers, relations with neighbouring groups, ethnocentrism; local organisation, sections, subsections, personal mobility in relation to religious significance of country; kinship system, residential family unit, marital relations, discord, elopements, adultery; socialisation, relations between parents and children, other kinfolk; moieties, descent; progressions through agegrades; law, social control; betrothal, marriage, childbirth; initiation, circumcision, subincision; death, funerary practices, child vs adult, man vs woman, causes of death, mourning.