Conflict Reducing
Mechanisms
•
Use of land (open range v.
estate) = use rights, based on
their using
•
Ethics of foraging
•
Band exogamy ( patrilineal and
matrilineal) mobile
•
Moeity concept (groups divided
in half) =
complementary
opposition
–
male/female
–
all males
–
all females
–
generations
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Dreaming
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Dreaming = time of creation
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Explanation
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Charter: how things are and should be
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Unites humans, animals, plants, and
features of the landscape in single
totality
•
Sacred/secret knowledge
–
male/female
–
revealed gradually through initiations
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Totems
– sense of connection to
Dreaming beings/spirits
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Ancestral totems: man and his descendants
(patriline)
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Conception totems – vary for each
individual
•
Continual performances in different
genres
–
unites past and present realities
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Triggers “release of life-force” from spirits
Dreaming
•
"The Dreaming" is then a
pluri-vocal term with a
number of distinct though
connected meanings.
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- Dreamtime, range v. estate, Mercia Eliade, narrative mythical account, The Dreaming
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