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Mortality, mourning and mortuary practices in indigenous Australia / edited by Katie Glaskin ... [et al.]

Subjects
Aboriginal Australians - Mortuary customs.; Australia - Social life and customs.; Aboriginal Australians - Death.
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.
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Mortality, mourning and mortuary practices in indigenous Australia / edited by Katie Glaskin ... [et al.].
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, - Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
237 pages
2008 English Book; Illustrated 24
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Title
  • Mortality, mourning and mortuary practices in indigenous Australia /​ edited by Katie Glaskin ... [et al.].
Other Authors
  • Glaskin, Katie.
Published
  • Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.
Physical Description
  • xx, 237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
  • English
ISBN
  • 9780754674498 (alk. paper)
  • 0754674495 (alk. paper)
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  • 395.2/​30899915
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  • 43154708
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