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Manikay.Com - North Australian Aboriginal Music by Jill Stubington, Ph.D. Aboriginal intellects have delighted in the further refinement of social organization, and have produced in different areas patrilineal and matrilineal clans, section and sub-section systems and various patterns of kinship. Australian Aboriginal music consists of songs, accompanied by various, mainly percussive, instruments. The voice is the primary sound-producing instrument of the Australian Aboriginals. www.manikay.com /library/north_australian_music.shtml   (5921 words)

ANU - Australian National Dictionary Centre - ANDC Arthur shows how the values of traditional Aboriginal society (especially spirituality and kinship relationships) were expressed in a new language, how this language dealt with the attackes on thos values by the white colonisers, and how more recently this language has become an important marker of Aboriginal cultural identity, celebrating continuity, survival, and renewal. The chapters focus on various aspects of Queensland, starting with the contributions Queensland Aboriginal languages have made to Australian English, moving to the outback, to lifestyle, to work, to politics and perceptions, and ending with the voice of the language of one of Queensland's indigenous peoples. Aboriginal English is the first and most significant dialect of Australian English. www.anu.edu.au /andc/pubs/lexmono.php   (1584 words)

AusAnthrop: Australian Aboriginal kinship and social organization The birth of kinship studies at the end of the 19th century is closely linked to Australian Aboriginal anthropology, one reason more to spend some time on the subject. Others are explicit, and these are grounded, in Aboriginal Australia, in two interwoven domains, one is the religious complex of the Dreaming -- or the Law --the other is kinship and social organisation or social categories that everywhere play an important role in everyday as well as religious life. Moreover, Australian kinship systems are also "universalistic": in theory, every human being is included in the kinship system. www.ausanthrop.net /research/kinship/kinship2.php   (4179 words)

MavicaNET - Dictionaries of Aboriginal Australian Languages Katalog / Kultur / Sprog / Isolated Languages (of Uncertain Kinship) / Aboriginal Australian Languages / Dictionaries of Aboriginal Australian Languages Katalog / Kultur / Sprog / Dictionaries: By Language / Dictionaries of Aboriginal Australian Languages Catalogue of electronic data files held in ASEDA - the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive www.mavicanet.com /lite/dan/22303.html   (77 words)

Australian Aboriginals Aboriginal Australians were social beings who lived in a number of social groups sometimes called bands, clans, sub-tribes and tribes, but essentially in a family or kinship group who were 1) of the same blood-line and 2) were related to other people through totems. Aborigines are therefore probably more familiar to the rest of the world than are the white Australians who immigrated to the continent from Britain and other European countries. Aboriginal woman (often carrying babies on their backs) and assisted by young children left the camp on a daily basis searching and collecting berries, yams and other sources of food. www.crystalinks.com /aboriginals.html   (77 words)

Aborigines, Australian Every Aboriginal society had its own set of kin terms in its own particular kinship system, but all the societies had some elements in common. Aboriginal society had a well-developed trading economy; goods of various kinds (spears, ochres, implements, pendants) were exchanged and passed from one group to the next--the whole country was crisscrossed with trade routes. Most Aborigines now live in fixed settlements, where housing and health and educational facilities are provided from the budget of the federally funded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. ntwww.grolier.com /scripts/up.idc?seqid=0000760-0&Version=9&Serial=000...   (77 words)

Ingarnendi - Indigenous Services Tindale set out to prove that Aboriginal people were not ‘free wanderers’ but were linked by culture, kinship and language and bound to their land through ecological social and religious ties. The South Australian Museum has a significant collection of photographs and genealogies of Aboriginal people from across Australia, which were recorded by Norman Barnett Tindale from 1920s- 1950s. Past projects have enabled the South Australian Museum to identify, develop, implement and administer projects that would assist communities with access to materials, training of individuals that would assist in community keeping and cultural places. www.ingarnendi.samuseum.sa.gov.au /indigenous_services.htm   (77 words)

Ingarnendi - Indigenous Services The South Australian Museum has a significant collection of photographs and genealogies of Aboriginal people from across Australia, which were recorded by Norman Barnett Tindale from 1920s - 1950s. Tindale set out to prove that Aboriginal people were not ‘free wanderers’ but were linked by culture, kinship and language and bound to their land through ecological social and religious ties. Past projects have enabled the South Australian Museum to identify, develop, implement and administer projects that would assist communities with access to materials, training of individuals that would assist in community keeping and cultural places. www.ingarnendi.samuseum.sa.gov.au /indigenous_services.htm   (77 words)

AusAnthrop: Australian Aboriginal kinship and social organization Kinship encompasses the norms, roles, institutions and cognitive processes referring to all the social relationships that people are born into or create later in life, and that are expressed through, but not limited to, an etic biological idiom. Kinship and social organisation are, in this respect and certainly in Australia, the privileged domain through which such recognition can be accomplished, either because it is implicitly expected by the legal system, or because it is one of the most efficient mechanisms for the inclusion of members among indigenous groups themselves. Kinship today is understood as a much more broader domain as it was 30 years ago, where genealogies and formal models were supposed to demonstrate cross-cultural similarities, while, at least for some researchers, underlining simultaneously cultural specificities. www.ausanthrop.net /research/kinship/kinship2.php   (4181 words)

AusAnthrop: Australian Aboriginal kinship and social organization Kinship encompasses the norms, roles, institutions and cognitive processes referring to all the social relationships that people are born into or create later in life, and that are expressed through, but not limited to, an etic biological idiom. Kinship and social organisation are, in this respect and certainly in Australia, the privileged domain through which such recognition can be accomplished, either because it is implicitly expected by the legal system, or because it is one of the most efficient mechanisms for the inclusion of members among indigenous groups themselves. Kinship today is understood as a much more broader domain as it was 30 years ago, where genealogies and formal models were supposed to demonstrate cross-cultural similarities, while, at least for some researchers, underlining simultaneously cultural specificities. www.ausanthrop.net /research/kinship/kinship2.php   (4179 words)

Meadows As an indication of its growing importance as a cultural resource, TVNC recently made a submission to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the equivalent of the Australian Broadcasting Authority) for it to allocate 25% of a proposed Canadian program fund for the sole use of developing Canadian Aboriginal television programming (Television Northern Canada 15). The way in which video technology, in particular, became available to remote Aboriginal communities, along with the very nature of electronic media, meant that community participation allowed for the negotiation of maintenance of traditional gender and kinship divisions, for example. One Aboriginal critic suggests that it is because indigenous people prefer to see 'whole bodies and whole events' (MacDougall 54). wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/8.2/Meadows.html   (4179 words)

Australian Journal of Anthropology, The: Shown but not shared, presented but not proffered: redefining ritual identity among Warlpiri ritual performers, 1990-2000 As such, an analysis of public performance as 'a field of dreams' provides a window to understand the contemporary nature of Aboriginal social engagement. Indeed, the modified functionality of Aboriginal ceremony, by virtue of its dramatic evolution both in purpose and structure, offers tremendous insight into the dynamic construction of indigenous social identity in a context of extended external colonial pressure. This protective role not only functions within what Myers (2002: 6) calls the 'intercultural space' that conjoins Aboriginal and White society, but also extends to settings of intracultural exchange--neocolonial situations in which Aborigines define 'Aboriginality' and exclude Whites. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2472/is_3_15/ai_n9483583   (1226 words)

Australian Aboriginals Aboriginal Australians were social beings who lived in a number of social groups sometimes called bands, clans, sub-tribes and tribes, but essentially in a family or kinship group who were 1) of the same blood-line and 2) were related to other people through totems. Aboriginal woman (often carrying babies on their backs) and assisted by young children left the camp on a daily basis searching and collecting berries, yams and other sources of food. Aborigines are therefore probably more familiar to the rest of the world than are the white Australians who immigrated to the continent from Britain and other European countries. www.crystalinks.com /aboriginals.html   (1226 words)

Warlpiri non-linguistic references Meggitt, Mervyn J. Understanding Australian Aboriginal society: kinship systems or cultural categories?, pp.64-87 in Kinship Studies in the Morgan centennial Year, ed. Author's summary: an analysis of selected Warlpiri ethnographies in terms of Bohman's prescriptions for adequate explanation in his New Philosophy of Social Science: Problems of Indeterminacy including Meggitt, Munn, Dussart (cf Meyers), Michaels, Jackson; historical anthropology as an approach to Warlpiri Christian purlapa. www.anu.edu.au /linguistics/nash/aust/wlp/wlp-eth-ref.html   (1226 words)

Yothu Yindi Yoism Pronounced "yo-thoo yin-dee," this expression translates from Yolngu matha to English as "child and mother." Yothu Yindi is essentially a kinship term referring to the connection that the Yolngu (Australian Aboriginal) clans of the northeastern Arnhem Land have between themselves. Yothu Yindi is also the name of Australia's most successful aboriginal music group. In the pieces below, you can hear some Yoan themes in their visionary music. www.yoism.org /?q=node/2   (251 words)

Child welfare South Australia is the sole jurisdiction to define the term `family'.1 The term includes the child's immediate and extended family, and, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, all other persons related to the child through traditional kinship rules. In the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales, where a court has made an order altering the guardianship of the child, those persons who previously had custody and guardianship (New South Wales) or were the child's guardians (Australian Capital Territory) are not included in the definition of parent. Parkinson has argued that an understanding of child welfare law is possible only by considering and evaluating the practice of child welfare; a reification of law as the beneficent protector of children is unrealistic, since ``no law can protect an abused child in theory''. www.au.lawoffice.com /article/28.htm   (251 words)

Francoise Dussart -- Curriculum Vitae Honorable Mention for Art from the Land: Dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art. Ritual Redress and Laws of the Land: Aboriginal Negotiation of Territory in "Post-Act" Australia. European Society for Oceanists, The Restructuring of Gender, Kinship and Personhood in neo-colonial Australia. www.anth.uconn.edu /faculty/dussart/dussart_cv.htm   (251 words)

Dussart Brings Aboriginal Art to New York - November 8, 1999 he Warlpiri, an Australian Aboriginal people, are a study in contrasts: they derive deep meaning from ritual body painting, and yet are willing to paint their myths in acrylics and videotape their rituals to communicate with more modern cultures and earn money for their survival. Dussart's latest book Kinship, Gender and the Currency of Knowledge Among the Warlpiri will be published next fall by Smithsonian Institution Press. Body paintings, for which the Warlpiri use natural pigments and animal fat or baby oil, is done on both men and women, but with different materials. www.advance.uconn.edu /1999/991108/11089906.htm   (743 words)

arena - archives - arena magazine Over time a pidgin 'Macassan' became the lingua franca for much of the north Australian coast, for as well as in dealings with Macassan trepangers, it was also used among the Aboriginal peoples who, through their employment with the Maccassans, came together over large distances. According to Saint-Clare, the composition of the cast in Trepang was dictated, in part, by the Yolngu insistence that the performers' kinship relationships to one another reflect this 'true story', and thus honour the legacy of that relationship. Trepang is a celebration of a relationship that is enmeshed in historical tensions and ambivalence. home.vicnet.net.au /~arena/archives/Mag_Archive/issue_45/against_the_current45.htm   (1072 words)

Bates, Daisy May - Australian Women Biographical entry Bates was a member of an expedition led by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown to study the social anthropology of Aboriginal people of north-west Australia in 1910. From 1899-1900 she was at the Trappist mission, Beagle Bay, north of Broome and in 1904 was appointed by the Western Australian government to research the tribes of the State. Bates also published her work on Indigenous kinship systems, marriage laws, language and religion in books and articles. www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/AWE0050b.htm   (1072 words)

NSW Dept of Aboriginal Affairs: Land and Culture: Fact Sheet Aboriginal languages are complex and diverse, with intricate grammar and extensive vocabularies which encapsulate an intimate knowledge of the Australian environment and Aboriginal culture. Language groups were fragmented and Aboriginal people were forced to relocate into mixed language groups, reducing the opportunities available to speak their language. Because there were so many languages and dialects, Aboriginal people were linguistic experts.They were often multilingual and individuals could speak the language of their mother, father and spouse which were frequently different. www.daa.nsw.gov.au /landandculture/langfacts.html   (1072 words)

Classification and distribution (from Australian Aboriginal languages) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! The language or languages of Tasmania were not extensively studied before their extinction; the meagre surviving lists of Tasmanian words show the characteristic Australian sound system, but the words themselves do not form demonstrable cognate sets with continental languages. Language boundaries were marginal or irrelevant to political organization and were crosscut by kinship and marriage networks. The major issue in the internal subgrouping of Australian languages is the relationship between the Pama-Nyungan group, which covers 90 percent of the continent, and the residual non-Pama-Nyungan cluster, which stretches across northernmost Australia (except Queensland). www.britannica.com /ebc/article-235211   (1409 words)

A History of Islam in Australia - IslamicSydney.com Worsely understood: "The contrast is plainly between the generosity and democracy of the Macassarese and the parsimony and colour bar of the Whites." Both Macassans and inhabitants of Arnhem Land remembered each others names, significant from the Aboriginal viewpoint where identification implied some ‘placement within the kinship frameworkÂ’. In 1985 his 81 year old daughter, Ibn Saribanung Daeng Nganna, appealed from Sulawesi through the Northern Territory News for contact with her Australian relatives. At the November 1893 conference of the Labor Electoral League of New South Wales, the platform which called for "Prohibition by law of the use of camels as beasts of burden, as being inimical to the health and well-being of the residents where such beasts are used" was confirmed. islamicsydney.com /printable.php?id=177   (1409 words)

Aboriginal elder convicted for reclaiming cultural symbols This is the first significant case since a domestic law on genocide was created in 2002 by the Australian parliament in order to gain admission to the International Criminal Court. Wiradjuri elder Neville “Chappy” Williams told Green Left Weekly: “The prosecutor Mr White speaks about the crown coat of arms, the kangaroo and emu, but this is about kinship for us, and culture, which is inherited and handed down through the generations. HAITI: Human rights activists seek end to massacres www.greenleft.org.au /back/2005/622/622p4.htm   (648 words)

Noongar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Noongar classification relating to kinship and intermarriage among the Noogar. According to Green (1984), the Noongar people could be identified by two common factors: they used a word similar to "Noongar" to describe themselves; and unlike most indigenous Australian peoples, they did not circumcise their male children as part of the initiation ceremony. The Noongar people like other Aboriginal people are involved in Native Title disputes with the state government. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Noongar   (2140 words)

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