Mortality, mourning and mortuary practices in indigenous Australia
By: [edited] by Katie Glaskin ... [et al.].
Contributors: Glaskin, Katie.
Series: Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780754674498
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Funeral customs and rites; Aboriginal Australians -- Death; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Australia; Australia -- Social life and custsoms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sorry business is Yapa way : Warlpiri mortuary rituals as embodied practice / Yasmine Musharbash; title: Solidarity in shared loss : death-related observances among the Martu of the Western Desert / Myrna Tonkinson; title: Death and health : the resilience of "sorry business" in the Kutjungka region of Western Australia / Brian F. McCoy; title: Time wounds : death, grieving and grievance in the northern Kimberley / Anthony Redmond; title: A personal reflection on a saltwater man and the cumulative effects of loss / Katie Glaskin; title: Social death and disenfranchised grief : an Alyawarr case study / Craig Elliott; title: "Promise me you'll come to my funeral" : putting a value on Wiradjuri life through death / Gaynor Macdonald; title: Death, family and disrespect in a northern Queensland town / Sally Babidge; title: A place to rest : dying, residence, and community stability in remote Arnhem Land / Marcus Barber; title: A life in words : history and society in Saibai Island (Torres Strait) tombstones / Richard Davis; title: "We don't want to chase 'em away" : hauntology in central Cape York Peninsula / Benjamin Richard Smith.