TEP387 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Walkabout, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Koala
21 Aug 2018
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Everything from people to the environment are split in these two halves. Each half is a mirror image of the other. Must come together in order to understand universe. In different aboriginal nations, they have different words to understand moiety. Child will inherit either father or mother"s moiety. Can only marry someone with a different moiety otherwise considered to be siblings. People with same moiety also obliged to support each other reciprocal rights and support must be paid back. You cannot have a child with someone of the moiety people need to know the correct moiety of others. Once you take an offer, you are obligated to pay them back. May not come personally but from that person"s particular family group. In traditional languages there are no please" or thank you" in aboriginal culture it is assumed and expected. If someone raids a nest and hinders reproduction, the emu people are held accountable: links us to universe and the earth.
