Mortality, mourning and mortuary practices in indigenous Australia /
Glaskin, Katie.
Farnham : Ashgate,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians
Funeral rites and ceremonies