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The world of the first Australians Aboriginal traditional life, past and present / Ronald M. and Catherine H. Berndt.
Record no.:
1534
Author:
Berndt, Ronald M. (Ronald Murray), 1916-1990.;
Berndt, Catherine H. (Catherine Helen), 1918-1994.;
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies;
Edition:
5th ed. (revised)
Publisher:
Canberra :: Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies,
Year:
c1999.
Description:
xxix, 608 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Aboriginal Australians.;
Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs.;
Notes:
Nagle Library copy ex dono Adrian Diethelm, Rector.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 556-600) and indexes.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0855751843 (pbk.) :;
Abstract:
Ch.I. The Aborigines in time and space -- Ch.II. Social organization and structure -- Ch.III. Social organization and structure (continued) -- Ch.IV. The basis of economic life -- Ch.V. The life cycle of growing up -- Ch.VI. The life cycle of marriage
to old age -- Ch.VII. Religious belief and practice: totemism and mythology -- Ch.VIII. Religious belief and practice: ritual -- Ch.IX. Magic and sorcery -- Ch.X. Law and order -- Ch.XI. Art and aesthetic expression -- Ch.XII. Art and aesthetic expression (continued) -- Ch.XIII. Death and the afterlife -- Ch.XIV. Paths into the present -- Ch.XV. An overview: the past and the present -- Ch.XVI. Australian Aboriginal studies.
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