Title A world that was : the Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia / Ronald M. Berndt and Catherine H. Berndt with John E. Stanton

Published Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1993

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Description xxxi, 624 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, general tables ; 26 cm Series Miegunyah Press series ; no. 11 Miegunyah Press series ; no. 11 Contents Includes index Summary Extensive and detailed ethnography of the Yaraldi (a dialect unit of the Kukabrak/Narrinyeri); physical environment; economic geography; population and disease; social composition, territorial organisation and their neighbours; kinship, clan structure and hierarchy; marriage, polygamy and the status of women - sexual relations, illegitimacy, elopement; genealogies of Albert Karloan and Pinkie Mack; maps of Brinkley Reserve and Murray Bridge; avoidance relationships; clan council; use comedy an examples of humour; trials of sorcery; subsistence economy; seasonality and division of time; hunting, fishing and gathering techniques; implements and equipment - canoes, spears, spearthrowers, clubs, boomerangs, shields, traps and snares, nets, baskets, mats; food preparation; food preservation; cloak and rug making; extraction of animal oils; trade and exchange items; exchange relationships - the Ngengampi; food taboos; conception beliefs, spirit child and soul, pregnancy prevention, infanticide, childbirth; socialization - infancy and childhood, naming; sexual relations in childhood, puberty rites - cicatrisation, beliefs about menstruation, defloration; male initiation (associated games and ritual); marriage, elopement and other sexual relations; love magic; healing magic - familiars; the spirit world - the dead and other nature spirits; ceremonies, song types and their composition; mythic deities, culture heroes - Ngurnderi, Waiyungari and the wives of Nepeli; other mythic beings - moon woman, birds (crow, crane, jay, magpie, pelican, native companion, emu), animals (water rat, whale, possum), amphibians, water, snake, fire; significance of the miwi and its use; reasons for, protection against, materials, methods and forms of sorcery; death and mortuary rituals; causes of death; summary of precontact culture and post- contact change; includes appendices 1) Kukabrak neighbours and dialectal units; 2) Kukabrak clans; 3) clan lands; 4) texts and translatins; 5) genealogical tables; 6) traditional foods; 7) songs and translations Analysis Aboriginal culture History Murray River Narrinyeri people South Australia Notes Includes indexes Bibliography Bibliography: pages 597-601 Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Murray River Estuary (N.S.W.-S. Aust.) Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Murray River Region (S. Aust.) -- Social life and customs Aboriginal Australians -- Murray River Estuary (N.S.W.-S.A.) Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Murray River Region (N.S.W.-S.A.) -- Social life and customs Aboriginal Australians -- Study and teaching -- Australia -- South Australia. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- South Australia -- Murray River Estuary Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- South Australia -- Murray River Region -- Social life and customs Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- South Australia. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Central Australia -- Social life and customs. Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- Cultural assimilation. Narrinyeri (Australian people) -- Social life and customs. Narrinyeri (Australian people) SUBJECT Murray River Region (N.S.W.-S.A.) -- History Author Berndt, Catherine H. (Catherine Helen), 1918-1994. Stanton, John E. LC no. 00002135 ISBN 0522844278

Other Titles The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia

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