Australia
Aboriginal Australian Traditions
community-specific terms; 'clever man' is a contact-era English gloss
Hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations
History
Aboriginal traditions are governed by law, country and restricted knowledge. Much of what colonial writers published should not have been published. This atlas presents context, history and rights rather than ceremonial content.
Ritual specialists
- Roles defined by the law of a specific country and community
Cosmology
- Ancestral beings and country as an active legal and moral order
Ritual practice
- Restricted; not documented here
History and pressure
- Dispossession
- Mission control of ceremony
- Native title and heritage-protection law
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