ANTH10400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dhuwal Language, Australian Aboriginal Culture, Endogamy
28 Mar 2017
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One of the most over-anthropologized peoples: prototype for h+g societies foragers. Model for the relationship between humans and the environment: culture and nature, influence of technology. Importance of history: link between the past, present, and future. Approximately 50,000 60,000 years ago discovery of australia: could possibly be even earlier (migrations of early humans) Genetic evidence that early settler came from southeast asia. Over 600 distinct cultural groups and over 200 languages. Pan-australian knowledge system: djalkiri (the dreaming) Australian aboriginals shows us how to live in connection and harmony with the environment. Bands (not kinship based: how they lived, tend to organize into highly flexible, multi-family, camps/bands. Division of labor: based on gender in band level societies, men can travel further to hunt bigger game subsistence based economy. The work of men is valued more highly than the work of women: women have always hunted, but were more limited.
