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The Elements of the Aborigine Tradition

James Cowan

出版	Element, 1997
主題	Religion / Comparative ReligionReligion / Indigenous, Folk & TribalSocial Science / Indigenous Studies
ISBN	186204144X9781862041448
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=emoXEZ9BnEIC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

A survey of the religious, ritual and mythological aspects of traditional Aboriginal culture; origins of Aboriginal culture; significance of the Dreaming - associations with the dog (dingo), rainbow snake, sky heroes, paternity and conception; celestial phenomena and cosmology; totemism, kinship, totemic identity and sacred objects; initiation ritual; role of art in ritual - Wandjina; function of myth and its relation to landscape; creation and powers of the clever men; ritual sexual relations in northern Australia; mortuary and after death beliefs.