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Title:Mortality, mourning and mortuary practices in indigenous Australia / edited by Katie Glaskin ... [et al.].
Online Resource:Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0820/2008024721.html
Published:Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.
Description:xx, 237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9780754674498 (alk. paper)
0754674495 (alk. paper)
LC Call Number:DU124.M67
Dewey Number:395.2/30899915
Series:Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
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.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects:Aboriginal Australians -- Mortuary customs.
Aboriginal Australians -- Death.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Australia.
Australia -- Social life and customs.
Other Authors:Glaskin, Katie.
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