The changing social structure of the Wanindiljaugwa
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The changing social structure of the Wanindiljaugwa
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- The changing social structure of the Wanindiljaugwa
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Worsley
- Subject
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- Environment - Climate and weather - Seasons
- Language - Vocabulary - Animal names
- Magic and sorcery - Love magic
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Food - Preparation - Cooking - Plants
- Religion - Totemism
- Stories and motifs
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Gathering
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Sex relations - Extramarital
- Technology - Tools
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems - Moieties
- Gender relations - Polygamy
- Death - Mourning
- Language
- Trade and exchange
- Colonisation
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Summary
- Geographical setting and historical background; early history of the Gulf; natural environment and economy, Aborigines detailed knowledge of plants and animals, importance of seasons, cooking methods, mode of distribution of products; material culture - raw materials obtained in bush - tools, stimulation of intertribal trade and specialization by local deficiencies, Malaysian and Macassan effect; totemism, clan & moiety, size & clan territory; Amunduwaria - principal religious ceremony of Island - mainland origin - evidence of age grading; terminology relating to age grades, various stages in life of the individual, circumcision, death, burial & mourning (bone boxes & symbolic dolls); beliefs, difference between local & mainland myths; kinship, marriage, kinship terms; segregation of men & women, polygamy & wife stealing; early settlement, property & exchange, love magic & adultery, methods of settling disputes; notes on the language, list of principal plants eaten by natives
- Dissertation note
- Thesis (PhD.), Australian National University
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