The Native Tribes of Central Australia
Autor: Baldwin Spencer , Francis James Gillen
Número de Páginas: 720
Nature of country, distribution and names of local group, totemic groups; the Alatunja or headman and his powers; councils of old men, medicine men; Hunting customs, foods, cooking, tracking ability; two exogamous intermarrying groups (Urabunna, Arunta, Ilpirra, Kaitish, Waagai, Warramunga, Iliaura, Bingongina); terms of relationship, avoidance, regulation of marriage by totem (Urabunna); class divisions; totems - Arunta, Urabunna; examples of totem names, ceremonies of the Engwura showing way in which each individual acquires his or her totemic name; wanderings of Alcheringa ancestors, the ritual objects, conception belief; Intichiuma ceremonies, food taboos; timing of holding rituals - Udniringita (witchetty grubs), Erlia (emu), Unjiamba (Hakea), Ilpirla (Manna), Yarumpa (honey ant), Quatcha (water) songs (no translation), place where Okira (kangaroo) ceremony is held - Undiara, cave painting, history of Ungutnika of Undiara, the kangaroo & the Kangaroo men; relationship between the individual & the totem; initiation - detailed account of all rites throwing boy in air, circumcision, body ornaments, sacred objects, performance of certain sacred ceremonies, subincision, burning of ...