A place for strangers : towards a history of Australian Aboriginal being

Tony Swain

Many of the elements ascribed to traditional Aboriginal beliefs and practices are the result of contact with external peoples - Melanesians and Indonesians, as well as Europeans. This controversial and provocative 1993 book is a detailed and continent-wide study of the impact of outsiders on Australian Aboriginal world-views. The author separates out a common core of religious beliefs which reflect the precontact spirituality of Australian Aborigines. This book investigates Aboriginal myth, ritual, cosmology and philosophy, and also examines social organisation, subsistence patterns and cultural change. It will be of great interest to readers in anthropology, religious studies, comparative philosophy and Aboriginal studies.

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[目次]

  • Introduction
  • 1. Worlds to endure
  • 2. Songs of a wayfarer
  • 3. A new sky hero from a conquered land
  • 4. Our mother from northern shores
  • 5. From the mother to the millennium
  • Conclusion.

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書名 A place for strangers : towards a history of Australian Aboriginal being
著作者等 Swain, Tony
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1993
ページ数 xi, 303 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0521446910
0521430054
NCID BA20532571
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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