1. ECONOMY, SOCIETY, AND MYTH IN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA.
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Yengoyan, Aram A.
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ABORIGINAL Australians , *SOCIAL structure , *SOCIAL interaction , *SOCIAL systems , *ANTHROPOLOGY , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences , *ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
The article discusses the developments in the social anthropology of Aboriginal Australian culture. It provides with a brief overview of the historical dimension of the study of Aboriginals and enumerates a number of aspects in which critical work and theoretical argumentation have brought forth renewed interest in old problems. Furthermore, it explores a wide range of topics which includes Aboriginal economy and local organization, population, kinship, social organization, religion, myth and symbolism. Finally, it presents a documentation of contact and change between Aboriginal and European society and the implications of the relationship of linguistic structure on religion..
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- 1979
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