Kinship Flashcards

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how Aboriginal spirituality is determined by the Dreaming?

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  • Kinship
  • Ceremonial life
  • Obligation to the land and people
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What is Kinship?

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The Social Structure Or Aboriginal social organisation and family relationships.

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What does it determine?

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Determines how people relate to each other, roles and responsibilities and obligations (on another, ceremonial and land).

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What is sacred law (Lore)

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  • Sacred laws passed down through generations.
  • Determine specifically who you can marry, how to raise children, roles and responsibilities within the tribe.
  • 3 levels of kinship; Moiety, Totem and Skin Names.

(Passed down through Kinship)

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what is Moiety?

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Meaning ‘half.’ Moiety is a system where everything, including people and the environment, are split in half.

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how is moiety determined by?

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it is through their matrilineal or patrilineal side of their family?

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People who share the same Moiety are considered siblings, and as a result they are?

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  • Forbidden to marry one another.
  • And Have reciprocal responsibilities to support others.
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What is a Totem?

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is a natural object, plant or animal that is inherited by members of a Clan or family as their spiritual emblem, and every tribe has one.

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What are totems believed to be decent from?

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Believed to be the descendant of the Dreamtime.
- Totems unites the tribe and helps keep the connection to the Dreaming.

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Indigenous Australian believe the totem ‘dreams’ and individuals into a woman’s womb.
Thus, creates a transcendent bound between the individual and their totem

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Thus, creates a transcendent bound between the individual and their totem.

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What are skin names?

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Skin Name indicates a person’s blood line, as well as, how generations are linked and how they should interact.

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Do family members share a skin name?

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No Husbands and wives do not share the same skin name, and children don’t share their parent’s name.
- Skin names are given based on the
preceding name and its level in the naming
cycle.

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