Author : Andreas Lommel
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Page : 154 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
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Book Description
An overview of Doctor Andreas Lommel's (member of the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt/Main) studies in 1938 of the Unambal Aboriginal Peoples living in outback of North-Western Australia: Kimberely. During this time he recorded and photographed the daily life of a hunter-gatherer culture. There are list of raw materials used by the Aboriginal people and the objects made from them (page 10), Figure of a Wondschina, painted on tree bark: (page 15), some rock arts: (pages 16, 18, 19), Kinshop terms for the members of one’s own marriage class (page 29-32), description of the individual totems in the case of individual persons an their transmission to the children (page 40), map sketch of the Unanbal territory in Northwest Australia (page 41), list of moden name and Aboriginal name of lands and travel routes (page 42), Monologue of Worrorra, Ngarinyin / Ungarinyin and Unambal languages are present on (pages 78-88, 93, 102-103), Some plates / photographs of Unambal people and events are on (105-116) Describes about Kurangara’s cult, magic, Maui dance, dance and songs, initiation (pages 94-102).