Aboriginal Spirituality as determined by Dreaming Flashcards
What is kinship?
System of complex relationships and obligations within Aboriginal societies.
The central was culture is passed on and how society is organized.
Define Roles and responsibilities, as well as govern everyday life.
How does Kinship determine the dreaming?
Determines ancestral spirits, and how you govern yourself spiritually, culturally and socially.
How does Ceremonial life determine the dreaming?
Ceremonial life revolves around the land, and thus making the land the physical medium through which the dreaming is expressed, and where the ancestral spirits dwell.
It exemplifies the dreaming.
Makes present the ancestral spirits through ritual.
How is the dreaming determined by Obligation to land and people?
Since the land is the physical medium in which their ancestral spirits dwell, they hold responsibilities to care and cultivate it.
