Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Phyllis Kaberry and me, anthropology, history and Aboriginal Australia, Sandy Toussaint

eng

Bibliography: p. 115-124

index present

non fiction

Phyllis Kaberry and me

bibliography

Sandy Toussaint

anthropology, history and Aboriginal Australia

Personalised account of the lives and work of Phyllis Kaberry and the writer (Sandy Toussaint) among the Aboriginal people of the Kimberley; Kaberry's anthropological career; survey of Kaberry's work in the Kimberley - childhood and child rearing practices, marriage and kinship, gender relations, role and rights of women, material culture, women's relation to totems and ritual life, death and mortuary ceremonies; conditions affecting Toussaint's and Kaberry's work; the contemporary Aboriginal domain and the position of the anthropologist as writer and researcher; identity; economy; changes in kinship and family structure; gender politics; conflict resolution - punishment; contemporary religious life - status of customary law and ritual, Christianity; substance use - alcohol