Australian Aboriginal Religion
Australian Aboriginal Religion

Author: Ronald Murray Berndt

Publisher: Brill Archive

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9789004038615

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"This work is a serious anthropological study of Australian Aboriginal religion. It is designed to be read by adults, and is primarily for use in universities and/or similar institutions. It is not, therefore, for use in schools. Where Australian Agorigines are concerned, and in areas where traditional Aboriginal religion is still significant, this book should be used only after consultation with local male religious leaders. This restriction is important. It is imposed because the concept of what is secret, or may not be revealed to the uninitiated in Aboriginal religious belief and action, varies considerably throughout the Australian continent; And because the varying views of Aborigines in this respect must on all occasions be observed. January 30th 1973 Ronald M. Berndt" --

Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia
Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia

Author: Fred Cahir

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2018-05

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1486306128

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Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator–prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been largely unknown and underappreciated by non-Aboriginal colonists, especially in the south-east of Australia where Aboriginal culture was severely fractured. Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia is the first book to examine historical records from early colonists who interacted with south-eastern Australian Aboriginal communities and documented their understanding of the environment, natural resources such as water and plant and animal foods, medicine and other aspects of their material world. This book provides a compelling case for the importance of understanding Indigenous knowledge, to inform discussions around climate change, biodiversity, resource management, health and education. It will be a valuable reference for natural resource management agencies, academics in Indigenous studies and anyone interested in Aboriginal culture and knowledge.

The Aiatsis Map of Indigenous Australia
The Aiatsis Map of Indigenous Australia

Author: David Horton

Publisher:

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781922059697

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The highly popular AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia is now available in a compact, portable A3 size. Available flat or folded (packaged in a handy cellophane bag ) it s the perfect take-home product for tourists and anyone interested in the diversity of our first nations peoples. The handy desk size also makes it an ideal resource for individual student use. For tens of thousands of years, the First Australians have occupied this continent as many different nations with diverse cultural relationships linking them to their own particular lands. The ancestral creative beings left languages on country, along with the first peoples and their cultures. More than 200 distinct languages, and countless dialects of them, were in use when European colonization began. While people in some communities continue to speak their own languages, many others are seeking to record and revive threatened ones. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples retain their connection to their traditional lands regardless of where they live. Using published resources available from 1988-1994, the map represents the remarkable diversity of language or nation groups of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia. The map was produced before native title legislation and is not suitable for use in native title or other land claims."

BUCKLEY, BATMAN & MYNDIE: Echoes of the Victorian culture-clash frontier
BUCKLEY, BATMAN & MYNDIE: Echoes of the Victorian culture-clash frontier

Author: David Kyhber Close

Publisher: BookPOD

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0992290449

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Sounding 6 begins with Bain Attwood’s thesis Blacks & Lohans and an echo titled SEX & SORROW EAST OF MELBOURNE. Then Henry Meyrick’s frontier life and death in Western Port and Gipps Land leads into Echo 93: TAMING MELBOURNE BAYSIDE & THE DANDENONGS. Turning to OPENING GIPPSLAND: elite squatters at Sale are contrasted by surviving Kooris on Jackson’s Track. The narrative then backtracks in time with Echo 95: CONTRIBUTIONS TO TRUTH ABOUT SLAUGHTER IN GIPPSLAND comprising the Porter, Cox, Fels and Gardner versions of the blood-stained land-grab. Fels then reports on the Native Police actions and Morgan’s recent overview of the Ganai before and after white settlement concludes the shameful issues long denied or excused. Echo 96: LIAR’S LUNCH charts the rise and fall of pioneer Angus McMillan MP before the focus shifts to the historical geography of East Gippsland clans and languages and on to missionary Bulmer at Lake Tyers with the stories of the payback of Hopping Kitty and Attwood’s study of Brataualung man Tarra Bobby. Alfred Howitt’s birthing of Oz anthropology with his opus The Native Tribes of South-east Australia published at the start of the 20th century is the source material of several echoes on the making of ‘clever’ men and on songs and song-makers. Sounding 6 closes with extracts reprinted from Professor Elkin’s Aboriginal Men of High Degree – their personality and ‘making’, the powers of medicine men, and in conclusion Echo 106: ABORIGINAL MEN OF HIGH DEGREE IN A CHANGING WORLD.

Elementary Structures Reconsidered
Elementary Structures Reconsidered

Author: Francis Korn

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0520319478

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

The Tribe, and Intertribal Relations in Australia
The Tribe, and Intertribal Relations in Australia

Author: Gerald Clair William Camden Wheeler

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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General ecology, examination of customs which regulate relations between groups belonging to social organizations of primitive races; local organization, south-eastern Australia, Central Australia, N.E. Queensland, W.A. (King Georges Sound), Tasmania; land ownership, inheritance, Government & leadership, descent, intercourse between tribes, inter - tribal etiquette, initiation gatherings, intermarriage, trade, feuds, cannibalism; quotes many Authors.