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.
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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)
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