Aboriginal Woman, Sacred and Profane

Résumé du livre

Field work, 1934, 1935 in Kimberley District; division of labour between sexes, methods of collecting food, economic cooperation, general camp life; distribution and consumption of food; conception beliefs, subsections, kinship terms, birth, childhood, discipline & education, puberty, marriage, sex in relation to marriage, abortion, alternate marriages, polygamy, kinship terms of Lunga tribe; law and government, totemism, mythology, increase ceremonies, rain making, old age & death, rites and mourning, womens rituals, circumcision, subincision and introcision, ritual at birth, magic; diffusion of Yirbindji ceremonies, ritual bodily decoration.