The World of the First Australians: Aboriginal Traditional Life : Past and PresentThis is the ninth printing of this classic book by Ronald and Catherine Berndt. Topics covered include social organisation, economic life, relationship with land, life cycle, religious beliefs, law and order, art, death, politics and an analysis of current developments in both Aboriginal studies and Aboriginal affairs. The comprehensive bibliography lists over 800 references which provide a detailed and authoritative introduction to Aboriginal traditional life, past and present. |
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Aboriginal Australia Aboriginal society Aboriginal Studies anthropological Aranda areas associated Australian Aboriginal Australian Institute bark Berndt blood brother called Canberra Cape York Peninsula Central Australia ceremonies Chapter child clan concerned culture Daly River dancing dead death descent group Djanggawul Dreaming eastern Elkin example father girl Gunwinggu Howitt human husband ibid initiation instance Institute of Aboriginal Island Julunggul Kimberleys kind kinship Kunapipi living magic main camp marriage McCarthy Melville Islands moiety mortuary mother Mountford myth mythical Ngurunderi Njirana north-eastern Arnhem Land Northern Territory novices Oceania ochre painted paperbark patrilineal person Plate Queensland Radcliffe-Brown relation relationship religious rites ritual sacred singing sister Snake social songs sorcery South Australia speak spear Spencer and Gillen spirit sticks stone Strehlow subincision subsection symbolic tion tjurunga totemic traditional Aboriginal tree tribes ubar Victoria Desert Warner Wawalag western Arnhem Land Western Australia Western Desert wife woman women Yirrkalla