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The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia (Forgotten Books)
The Euahlayi Tribe A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia - Forgotten Books Author:K. Langloh Parker Book Description: — "This is an effort by K. Langloh Parker to describe in formal terms her understanding of Euahlayi society. The resulting ethnography is factual and well written. Parker was obviously also familiar with the anthropological literature. She was hardly the detached observer that modern ethnography demands, however, at that ... more »time this methodology had not been invented yet. This is not necessarily a bad thing. As Andrew Lang points out in the introduction, she lived in close contact with aborigines for many years, and as a female she had access to the women of the tribe, a viewpoint for which we have no other source from that time period. " (Quote from sacred-texts.com)
Table of Contents:
Publisher's Preface; Introduction; Introductory; The All Father, Byamee; Relationships And Totems; The Medicine Men; More About The Medicine Men And Leechcraft; Our Witch Woman; Birth--betrothal--an Aboriginal Girl From Infancy To Womanhood; The Training Of A Boy Up To Boorah Preliminaries; The Boorah And Other Meetings; Chiefly As To Funerals And Mourning; Something About Stars And Legends; The Trapping Of Game; Foraging And Cooking; Costumes And Weapons; The Amusements Of Blacks; Bush Bogies And Finis; Glossary; Endnotes
About the Publisher:
Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, Esoteric and Mythology. www.forgottenbooks.org
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