Mardu Aborigines

Question 1

Which Anthropologist first used the idea of Dreamtime

Answer 1

Australian Francis Gillen

Question 2

The term dreamtime is based on what indigenous word?

Answer 2

Alcheringa

Question 3

What is totemism?

Answer 3

A system of belief in which humans are said to have kinship or a mystical relationship with a spirit-being, such as an animal or plant.

Question 4

Describe the dreamtime supernatural beings

Answer 4

Half animal, half human and have done things to the landscape, these things are now sacred

Question 5

Dreamtime starts before what

Answer 5

birth

Question 6

Where do babies come from in Aborigine ideas?

Answer 6

Dreamtime

Question 7

For how long have Aborigines sustained the highly sustainable form of lifestyle which they practice?

Answer 7

approximately 60 000 years

Question 8

How does Dreamtime interact with their sustainability?

Answer 8

It is a set of rules which cannot be changed

Question 9

How does dreamtime’s stability and unchanging nature enhance sustainability?

Answer 9

Progress is an alien concept, structural progress and development does not exist

Question 10

What is expressed through totemism and continuity?

Answer 10

Circular relationship with the natural world

Question 11

What does totemism and continuity encourage?

Answer 11

Care

Question 12

What kind of marriage is there in Aborigine societies?

Answer 12

Polygyny

Question 13

What is the equivalent of Polygyny for when a woman has more than one husband?

Answer 13

Polyandry

Question 14

What is the opposite of Polygyny/Polyandry?

Answer 14

Monogamy

Question 15

You can only marry someone with a different what?

Answer 15

Moiety

Question 16

Why can you only marry someone with a different Moiety?

Answer 16

Those of the same Moiety are considered to be siblings

Question 17

There are two groups to the Moiety, how many subsections are there?

Answer 17

4

Question 18

What is the ethnography associated with this culture?

Answer 18

Mardu Aborigines: Living the Dream in Australia’s Desert Tonkinson 2002

Question 19

The Mardu group is a linguistic groups which surrounds which lake?

Answer 19

Lake disappointment

Question 20

How is food shared?

Answer 20

Equitably

Question 21

What kind of food is shared between families and what kind of food is kept within families?

Answer 21

Vegetables kept within families and big game shared between families

Question 22

The small amount of trade which does take place in the aborigine cultures takes place in which three instances?

Answer 22

1) Ritual activities in big meetings
2) Gift exchange
3) Obligations to certain close kin