Mortality, mourning and mortuary practices in indigenous Australia /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Glaskin, Katie
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
Series:	Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
Subjects:	Aboriginal Australians > Funeral customs and rites. Aboriginal Australians > Death. Funeral rites and ceremonies > Australia. Australia > Social life and customs.

Table of Contents:

Sorry business is Yapa way : Warlpiri mortuary rituals as embodied practice / Yasmine Musharbash
Solidarity in shared loss : death-related observances among the Martu of the Western Desert / Myrna Tonkinson
Death and health : the resilience of "sorry business" in the Kutjungka region of Western Australia / Brian F. McCoy
Time wounds : death, grieving and grievance in the northern Kimberley / Anthony Redmond
A personal reflection on a saltwater man and the cumulative effects of loss / Katie Glaskin
Social death and disenfranchised grief : an Alyawarr case study / Craig Elliott
"Promise me you'll come to my funeral" : putting a value on Wiradjuri life through death / Gaynor Macdonald
Death, family and disrespect in a northern Queensland town / Sally Babidge
A place to rest : dying, residence, and community stability in remote Arnhem Land / Marcus Barber
A life in words : history and society in Saibai Island (Torres Strait) tombstones / Richard Davis
"We don't want to chase 'em away" : hauntology in central Cape York Peninsula / Benjamin Richard Smith.