ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANA

Based on PhD research; womens roles in desert society; change and continuity in womens roles; womens ritual and ideology; relationship between mens and womens roles in ritual; gender specific constructs; relationship to land; kinship and marriage; epilogue added to 2nd edition to answer theoretical issues raised by reviewers of 1st edition.

• This ‘classic of Australian anthropological literature’ studies Aboriginal women’s lives from a woman’s perspective. This edition revisits Bell’s pioneering work of the ’70s to explore the key anthropological questions which her analysis of her fieldwork posed.

  • 342 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cm.
  • Bibliography: p. 307-326.
  • Previous ed.: Melbourne : McPhee Gribble ; Sydney : George Allen & Unwin, 1983.
  • First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
    • Religion – Rites – Ceremonial objects
    • Social organisation – Kinship – Marriage
    • Social behaviour – Roles
    • Ceremonies – Women
    • Indigenous knowledge – Health and medicine
    • Art – Body art
    • Ceremonies – Initiation
    • Sites – Dreaming tracks
    • Culture – Relationship to land
    • Warumungu people (C18) (NT SE53-10)
    • Kaytetye / Kaytej people (C13) (NT SF53-06)
    • Alyawarr / Alyawarre people (C14) (NT SF53-07)
    • Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
    • Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
    • Warrabri / Ali Curung / Alekerenge (Central NT SF53-02)

    Subject:

    • Women, Aboriginal Australian — Northern Territory
    • Ethnology — Northern Territory
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