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Author Turner, David Howe

Title Tradition and Transformation : A Study of the Groote Eylandt Area Aborigines of Northern Australia
Published Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1974

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 W'PONDS  306.08994295 Tur/Tat  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
regular print
Series Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Australian Aboriginal Studies ; No. 53
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Australian Aboriginal studies ; no.53
Social anthropology series ; no.8
Social anthropology series (Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies) ; No. 8
Summary Study of Aborigines on Groote Eylandt - some from Bickerton Island, Anindiljaugwa language, Wanunamagaaljuagba and Wanungenungubuju people; Settlement at Angurugu Mission (Church Mission Society); traditional kinship, terminology, marriage patterns, changing kinship and marriage systems, death ceremonies sorcery; songs; dances; changes in mortuary rituals; Christianity and syncretism; economic basis of community; dugong and turtle fishing; plant collection; food and cooking; division of labour; new cash economy; employment in mining and in commercial fishing; links with Macassans and basis of Anindiljaugwa language; Ritual and mythological sites, bark paintings
Analysis Aboriginal communities. Culture change. Northern Territory. Groote Eylandt region
Australian Aborigines - Northern Territory - Groote Eylandt - Ethnography
Notes Accompanying materials in A/V Area at DU120.A1.A94 No. 53A
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 222-224
Event 1974
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Music.
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Groote Eylandt -- Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Groote Eylandt -- Social life and customs
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Groote Eylandt (N.T.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Groote Eylandt (N.T.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Groote Eylandt
Social change -- Australia -- Groote Eylandt (N.T.)
Social change.
Author Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
LC no. 34002800
ISBN 0855750308