Religion in aboriginal Australia

University of Queensland Press

1984

xii, 458 p.

Includes bibliographies and index

Swallowing and regurgitation in Australian myth and rite / L.R. Hiatt -- The transformation of subjects into objects in Walbiri and Pitjantjatjara myth / Nancy D. Munn -- The world-creative powers / Kenneth Maddock -- Semen versus spirit-child in a Western desert culture / Robert Tonkinson -- Spirit conception in Murngin thought / Lloyd Warner -- Religion, totemism and symbolism / W.E.H. Stanner -- Traditional morality as expressed through the medium of an Australian Aboriginal religion / Ronald M. Berndt -- Burial practices of the native tribes of South-east Australia / A.W. Howitt -- Initiation among the Walbiri / M.J. Meggitt -- The Nathagura or Fire ceremony of the Warramunga tribe / Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen. Mystic experience : essential qualification for men of high degree / A.P. Elkin -- Aboriginal women : sacred and profane / Phyllis Kaberry -- Women and the "Secret life" / Catherine H. Berndt -- Women and their life in Central Australia / Geza Roheim -- Central Australian Aboriginal women's love rituals / Diane Bell -- Tiwi world views and values / Jane C. Goodale -- The mobility of Aboriginal religion / Erich Kolig -- A revival of the law : the probable spread of initiation circumcision / Dennis Gray -- Yolngu ceremonies and bark painting / Howard Morphy

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