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Discusses meaning of civilization; p.43-58, part 2 - People outside; popular misconceptions about Aborigines, new evidence to dispel these ideas, modern research reveals deeper significance in Western Desert culture, complexity of Aboriginal songs, examples from rain magic sequence from Canning Stock Route (English only) and Gunwinggu gossip songs in English & vernacular), brief explanations of social behaviour, kinship, moieties, clans, linguistic units, stories of Djanggau Sisters, Wawalag Sisters & their accounting for social & ritual differences between men & women; plates show bark paintings (from Berndt Collection at University of Western Australia) collected in Arnhem Land, with artists name where known, the Elcho Island Memorial.
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Modern Civilization, Myth, Symbolism, Regression (Civilization), Art, Painting, Bark, Religion, Rites, Ceremonial objects, Ceremonies, Rain making, Social organisation, Kinship, Systems, Moieties, Language, Linguistics, Music, Vocal, Transport, Road, Roads and tracks, Social behaviour, Stories and motifs, Wawalag Sisters, Gunwinggu, Gunwinygu, Kunwinjku language (N65) (NT SD53-02), Kunwinjku people (N65) (NT SD53-02), W©Þgilak, Wawilak language (N106) (NT SD53-07), Wawilak people (N106) (NT SD53-07)Times
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The Barbarians (The New Thinker's Library)
December 31, 1971, Franklin Watts Ltd
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0296348708 9780296348703
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