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Klappentext A pioneering and influential ethnography of Central Australian Aboriginal tribal customs and social structures, first published in 1899. Zusammenfassung Sir Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929) was a British/Australian biologist and anthropologist. First published in 1899 after Spencer and Gillen's fieldwork in Central Australia in 1896, this pioneering volume describes in detail previously unrecorded tribal customs, kinship structures, marriage and burial customs and religious beliefs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The social organisation of the tribes; 3. Certain ceremonies concerned with marriage, together with a discussion regarding the same; 4. The totems; 5. The churinga or bull roarers of the Arunta and other tribes; 6. Intichiuma ceremonies; 7. Initiation ceremonies; 8. Initiation ceremonies (continued); 9. Initiation ceremonies (continued); 10. Traditions dealing with the origin of the Alcheringa ancestors of the Arunta tribe and with particular customs; 11. Traditions dealing with the origin of the Alcheringa ancestors of the Arunta tribe and with particular customs (continued); 12. Customs concerned with knocking out of teeth, etc.; 13. The customs of Kurdaitcha and Illapurinja and the avenging party or atninga; 14. Customs relating to burial and mourning; 15. The Iruntarinia and Arumburinga, or spirit individuals; 16. The making and the powers of medicine men; various forms of magic; 17. Methods of obtaining wives; 18. Myths relating to sun, moon, eclipses, etc.; 19. Clothing, weapons, implements, decorative art; Appendices; Glossary of native terms used; Index.
