Notes on the social anthropology of the Roper River region, 1920, 1930-40, 1946-53

Résumé du livre

Material collected by W.E. Harney in 1920, 1930-40; notes edited and added to by A.P. Elkin; information arranged under the following headings; the camp, hunting & foodgathering, the child, marriage, marriage and culture, the karawadi or initiation into the old woman cult, subincision, dreaming & myth, customs relating to marriage, dreamings and names, ritual defloration.