DESERT PEOPLE - THE WALBIRI ABORIGINES by M.J. Meggitt. Ref: B5065

Title: DESERT PEOPLE - A STUDY OF THE WALBIRI AORIGINES OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA.
Author/Editor: M. J. Meggitt
Description: Ethnography of the Walbiri (Waljbiri); physical environment, includes table of Walbiri flora, with language and Latin names, uses; history from 1862, contacts with Australian explorers, pastoral settlement, violent conflict, establishment of Aboriginal settlements; contemporary distribution, numbers, relations with neighbouring groups, ethnocentrism; local organisation, sections, subsections, personal mobility in relation to religious significance of country; kinship system, residential family unit, marital relations, discord, elopements, adultery; socialisation, relations between parents and children, other kinfolk; moieties, descent; progressions through agegrades; law, social control; betrothal, marriage, childbirth; initiation, circumcision, subincision; death, funerary practices, child vs adult, man vs woman, causes of death, mourning.
Illustrated: Yes.
Publishing Details: University of Chicago Press.
ISBN #: 66-11884
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Cover Type: Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket.
Number of Pages: 348
Condition: Book is clean. No loose or damaged pages. Dust jacket shows wear with piece missing from bottom left corner and around spine.
Weight: 640g. 
Measurements: 22x14x3cm.
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