The first one is to answer the question, "In which ways has religion reinforced the identity of Australian Aborigines?" That question is part of a larger research programme which deals with the "fit" (or lack of fit) between the identity model of religion, as set out in my Identity and the Sacred (1976) and the actual religious data in a variety of cultures. [...] If their suggestions, together with the equally valuable ones of the readers selected by the Canadian Fed- eration of the Humanities could not always be implemented, the reason lies in the physical impossibility of a return to the field in viii The Firm and the Formless: Aboriginal Australia Australia. [...] The conception totem (the totem belonging to the place where the individual for the first time made his presence known in the womb), not the social or group totems, was the foundation and origin of totemism. [...] This larger class includes "the ritual attitude of the Anda- man Islanders towards the turtle, of Californian Indians to the sal- mon, of the peoples of North America and Northern Asia to the bear" 14 The Firm and the Formless: Aboriginal Australia (ibid., 126). [...] Actually impulses and emotions explain nothing: they are always results, either of the power of the body or of the impotence of the mind.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- 1 Religion and Identity 10
- 1 Identity in Aboriginal Society 14
- 2 Objectification 17
- 1 Totemism 18
- 2 Sir James Frazer 19
- 3 Emile Durkheim 20
- 4 Sigmund Freud 21
- 5 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown 22
- 6 Claude Lévi-Strauss 24
- 7 William E. H. Stanner 26
- 8 Other Forms of Objectification 27
- 3 Commitment 31
- 1 Taboos 31
- 2 Leadership 33
- 3 Churinga and Sacred Sites 34
- 4 Love 35
- 5 Asceticism 36
- 6 Sacrifice 38
- 4 Ritual 40
- 1 Totemic Ceremonies 40
- 2 Rites of Passage 41
- 3 Birth 42
- 4 Marriage 42
- 5 Initiation 44
- 6 Death 50
- 6.1 The Separation Phase: Stripping Away of Identity 52
- 6.2 The Transition Phase: Lack of Identity 53
- 6.3 The Re-integration Phase: Welding of Identity 53
- 5 Myths 57
- 1 Territory 58
- 2 Order/Disorder Myths 61
- 3 Morality 64
- 4 Rebirth Myths 66
- 5 Fire and Water 70
- 6 Conclusion 71
- 6 Breakdown and Native Revitalization 72
- 1 Native Revitalization 76
- 7 The European Effect on Revitalization 82
- 1 The Missionary Effect 82
- 2 The Sectarian Effect 87
- 3 The Secular Effect 92
- 8 Conclusion 96
- Bibliography 103
- Index 109
- Names 109
- A 109
- B 109
- C 109
- D 109
- E 109
- F 109
- G 109
- H 110
- I 110
- J 110
- K 110
- L 110
- M 110
- N 110
- O 110
- P 110
- R 110
- S 110
- T 110
- U 111
- V 111
- W 111
- Y 111
- Subjects 111
- A 111
- B 111
- C 111
- D 111
- F 111
- G 111
- H 111
- I 111
- L 111
- M 112
- N 112
- O 112
- P 112
- R 112
- S 112
- T 112
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