David Mcknight

Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery

The Quest for Power in Northern Queensland

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a fascinating exploration of the relationship between marriage, violence and sorcery in an Australian Aboriginal community. Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery offers an archive of valuable primary materials, drawing on the author's forty-year knowledge of the community on Mornington Island.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9780754644651
• ISBN-10: 0754644650
• Artikelnr.: 57042928

Autorenporträt

David McKnight held academic posts at the University of Edinburgh, the London School of Economics and the University of Western Ontario, before retiring on the Emeritus staff of the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He was well known for his work on kinship and marriage, beginning his research amongst Australian Aborigines in 1966, and living with the people of Mornington Island in Northern Queensland for over five years and the Wik people of Aurukun in Cape York Peninsula for a year in addition to making brief visits to other Australian Aboriginal communities.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
History of the Wellesley Islands
Marriage: Lardil and Yangkaal: endogamy and exogamy
Kaiadilt endogamy and exogamy
Violence: Early time fights
Baya! Baya! Fight! Fight!
Violence in the 1970s
Reasons for violence
Sorcery: Sorcerers and clever men
Spearing in the Bush
Recent sorcery cases
Some general observations about sorcery
All the Puripuri men are dead
Appendix: sorcery cases
Bibliography
Index.