| Description |
xvii, 179 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Case studies in cultural anthropology |
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Case studies in cultural anthropology.
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| Contents |
Tiwi marriage: cultural isolation, the tribe and the bands, the household, marriage by betrothal, widow remarriage, naming rules, levirate, sororal polygyny, and cross-cousin marriage, "disputed" wives, the household: an overview -- Life in the bush: organization: band and household, daily activities, joint activities, making things -- The prestige and influence system: the beginning of Tiwi careers, a very successful elder: Ki-in-kumi, the establishment of Malau, the politics of widow remarriage, the politics of bestowal -- The collective life: legal affairs, sneak attacks by Arnold R. Pilling, religious activities -- Friend and foe (1600-1928) : hostility toward outsiders (1600-1900), the beginning of friendly contact -- Changing Tiwi society: 1930 into the 1970s: changes since 1930, marriage arrangements, residence patterns, the change from patriliny to matriliny, the Tiwi and the Australian nation -- The Tiwi revisited: 1954-1987 / Jane Goodale: fieldwork and the anthropology of the Tiwi, the owners of their land - again, the townships and their government, continuity and change -- Fieldwork among the Tiwi, 1928-1929 / C.W.M. Hart: getting started, getting into the kinship system, time on my hands, some unanswered questions about kinship, answers in genealogies, the age factor, lament |
| Summary |
An examination of the colorful Tiwi culture from the late 1920s to the 1980s that provides a broad picture of cultural change and modernization in a hunting and food gathering tribe. The first half focuses on marriage contracts and their relationship to other aspects of Tiwi social structure, and the second half examines the Tiwi's response to modern influences |
| Analysis |
Australia Northern Territory Melville Island & Bathurst Island Tiwi Cultural processes |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 163-176 |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Social life and customs.
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Tiwi (Australian people)
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Tiwi (Australian people) -- Social life and customs.
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| Author |
Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter), 1926-2008.
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Pilling, Arnold R.
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| LC no. |
87007510 |
| ISBN |
0030120195 |
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