num_pages: 280
description: The Lardil, an Australian Aboriginal tribe, have a rich and complex cognitive culture and are native speakers of three different languages, each used for separate occasions. McKnight examines their systems of classifying the world, and creates the first inventory of the cognitive aspects of anAboriginal tribe's social structures (including kinship, myth, and ritual).
language: English
title: People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent: Systems of Classification among the Lardil of Mornington Island
titlecomplete: People, Countries, and the Rainbow Serpent: Systems of Classification among the Lardil of Mornington Island (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 12)
publisher: Oxford University Press