WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL
Petri’s volume Sterbende welt in nordwest Australien, first appeared in 1954 and presents the complexities and the conundrums that appear within the concepts that underpin Ngarinyin religious philosophy. This translation reveals the depths of Petri’s grasp of the anthropology of peoples of the north Kimberley.
- Originally published in German: Braunschweig, Germany : Albert Limbach, ©1954.
- x, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- #060424
- Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — Folklore
- Worrorra people (K17) (WA SD51-16)
- Initiation – Circumcision
- Wunambal people (K22) (WA SD51-12)
- Ngarinyin / Ungarinyin language (K18) (WA SE 52-01)
- Material culture
- Initiation – Subincision
- Weapons – Spears
- Social organisation – Kinship – Systems – Sections and subsections
- Gathering
- Health status – Nutrition
- Nyikina people (K3) (WA SE51-11)
- Health – Treatments – Traditional
- Technology – Dilly bags
- Technology – Tools
- Weapons
- Religion – Totemism
- Stories and motifs – Mythological beings
- Art – Subjects – Wandjina
- West Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51)
- (Gift inscription on title page.)