On Aboriginal religion / W.E.H. Stanner

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanner, W. E. H., author.

Contributor:

Merlan, Francesca.

Hiatt, L. R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages) illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner is perhaps most well known for coining the phrase the great Australian silence, addressing the culture of denial or conscious forgetting'regarding the history Australia since European arrival.This reprint of On Aboriginal Religion pays tribute to the ongoing relevance of Stanners work. His research into Aboriginal religion was first published as a series of articles in the journal Oceania between 1959 and 1963. In 1963 the articles were published as the collection in as Oceania Monograph 11, which was later reprinted as a facsimile edition with introductory sections by Francesca Merlan and Les Hiatt (1989).As Stanner writes in his introduction to the 1963 collection, I thought I should take Aboriginal religion as significant in its own right and make it the primary subject of study, rather than study it, as was done so often in the past, mainly to discover the extent to which it expressed or reflected facts and preoccupations of the social order. It is this dedication to recording the beliefs and observing the practice of Aboriginal religion that has made this monograph so important.

Contents:

On Aboriginal Religion

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Note to the 2014 Edition

On Aboriginal Religion: An Appreciation

Defects of Social Structural Analysis

What Is Aboriginal Religion?

Symbolisation in Aboriginal Religion

The Method: Congruence of Myth and Rite

The Dreaming

The Contribution of ‘On Aboriginal Religion’

Acknowledgments

References

On Aboriginal Religion: Stanner’s Work

The Ethnographic Contents

The Bullroarer Rite

The Myth of the Old Woman

The Myth of the Rainbow Serpent

The Circumcision Rite

The Death Rite

The Myth of the Black-Snake Woman

The Season-Changing Rite

Pre-puberty Initiation Rites

Karamala

Djaban

Myth of Crab and Crow

The Argument

The Demonstration Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9781743324950

1743324952

OCLC:

1441724606