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  title info:
    title: Aboriginal victors of the desert crusade
  title info:
    title: Jigalong mob: aboriginal victors of the desert crusade
  name:
    name part: Tonkinson, Robert.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    place:
      place term: Menlo Park, Calif
    publisher: Cummings Pub. Co.
    date issued: 1974
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 166 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Concerned with the adaptive strategies of Aborigines at Jigalong a non-traditional community comprised of several linguistics groups, which allow them to maintain a degree of cultural integrity in the face of Westernization; Subjects covered; 1) General historical information; 2) Jigalong social, economic and political organization; tribal, linguistic and regional affiliation of community members (majority of whom are Mandjildjara, Gadudjara or Wanman speakers); camp layout; family life and marriage; kinship system; kin terms and role behaviour; section systems, station and mission employment as major sources of income; role of subsistence activities; missionaries and the distribution of government monies; settlement administration; Aboriginal leadership and authority; Abor. intra and inter-community relations; Abor. and white relations; 3) Religion; general information re Dream time concepts and mythology; concept of Law as synonomous with traditional culture and the Dreamtime heritage; totemism - 2 types, conception and ancestral; magic-curing, sorcery, featherfeet ritual killers; ritual; concepts of power and sacredness; ritual generational divisions and status; types of ritual - classed by personnel, mythological origin, and purpose; purposes - initiation, ancestralinstructive, commemorative-recreational, increase; describes Nga; wajil, rain-making ritual; ritual paraphernalia; inter-community contacts and cultural transmission - role of periodic big meetings at which Aborigines from a wide area assemble for various ritual purposes, particularly initiation, in introducing changes to traditional religion; 4) Acceptance of Western cultural elements; easy acceptance of utilitarian items and other material goods even for ritual purposes, except when perceived to contravene the Law; medicine; tobacco; mass media exposure; young mens adoption of cowboy culture in station context; separation of children and adults by missionaries through schools and dormitories in atte…
  table of contents: Environmental and Historical Setting -- The Jigalong Mob -- The Religious Life -- The Acceptance of Western Cultural Elements -- Continuities and Rejection of Christianity -- Conclusion: Strategies for Survival.
  note: Robert Tonkinson.
  note: Also issued online.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-161) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: u-at-we
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jigalong Mission.
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
    topic: Jigalong Mission
  subject:
    topic: Australian aborigines
    topic: Jigalong Mission
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jigalong Mission.
  subject:
    topic: Australiens (Aborigènes)
    topic: Jigalong Mission
  subject:
    topic: Mandjindja
    topic: Mantjintjarra
    topic: Manjiljarra language (A33) (WA SG52-13)
  subject:
    topic: Mandjindja
    topic: Mantjintjarra
    topic: Manjiljarra people (A33) (WA SG52-13)
  subject:
    topic: Kartujarra language (A51) (WA SF51-14)
  subject:
    topic: Kartujarra people (A51) (WA SF51-14)
  subject:
    topic: Warnman language (A62) (WA SF51-11)
  subject:
    topic: Warnman people (A62) (WA SF51-11)
  subject:
    geographic: Jigalong (WA East Pilbara SF51-13)
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Totemism
  subject:
    topic: Child welfare
    topic: Child
    topic: parent separation
  subject:
    topic: Social identity
    topic: Aboriginality
  subject:
    topic: Religions
    topic: Christianity
    topic: Missions
  subject:
    topic: Socioeconomic conditions
    topic: Living conditions
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Dreaming
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Rites
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
    topic: Missions
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Mythology, Aboriginal Australian
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Iwi taketake
  subject:
    topic: Jigalong Mission
  subject:
    topic: Jigalong Region (WA)
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians - Western Australia - Jigalong Mission
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians - Religion
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians - Missions - Western Australia
  classification: GN667.J53 T66
  classification: 301.29/941
  classification: ED 1.310/2:458186
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      title: Aboriginal victors of the desert crusade
    name:
      name part: Tonkinson, Robert.
    origin info:
      publisher: Menlo Park, Calif. : Cummings Pub. Co., 1974
    identifier: (OCoLC)643618587
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  identifier: 14280 ; 10871 ; 5991b
  identifier: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS26352
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    location:
      url: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS26352
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 740315
    record change date: 20240327123310.0
    record identifier: in00000605641
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng