The Anthrogirl Podcast
Pitjantjatjara Man
Despite the austerity of their environment and their meagre possessions, these aboriginal people of central Australia produced as lavish a body of myth and ritual as can be found anywhere in the world. It is a staggering cultural resource - but with the coming of the whitefella, everything changed.
Bibliography:
Gould, Richard, Yiwara, Foragers of the Australian Desert, Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY
Moorehead, Alan, Cooper’s Creek, The Opening of Australia, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987
Sharp, Lauriston, Technological Innovation and Culture Change: An Australian Case, in Cultural and Social Anthropology, Peter B. Hammond, The MacMillan Company
Spencer and Gillen, The Native Tribes of Central Australia, Dover Publications, NY
Despite the austerity of their environment and their meagre possessions, these aboriginal people of central Australia produced as lavish a body of myth and ritual as can be found anywhere in the world. It is a staggering cultural resource - but with the coming of the whitefella, everything changed.
Bibliography:
Gould, Richard, Yiwara, Foragers of the Australian Desert, Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY
Moorehead, Alan, Cooper’s Creek, The Opening of Australia, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987
Sharp, Lauriston, Technological Innovation and Culture Change: An Australian Case, in Cultural and Social Anthropology, Peter B. Hammond, The MacMillan Company
Spencer and Gillen, The Native Tribes of Central Australia, Dover Publications, NY