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THE FIRM AND THE FORMLESS
RELIGION AND IDENTITY IN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA |
| By: |
Hans Mol |
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Electronic book text |
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£28.25 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0889206783 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780889206786 |
| Publisher: |
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 1982 |
| Synopsis: |
This volume is woven around the idea that wholeness (the firm) and fragmentation (risking formlessness) alternate in human affairs. This theme is applied to the history and the present condition of Australian Aboriginals. Their religion is seen as a way to bolster a precarious identity and to affirm order in an existence which would otherwise become formless. It deals with totemism as a form of ordering a variety of often conflicting identities. The author describes the modern predicament of Aborigines in Australian society and concludes that their revitalization will occur only when they manage to make economic self-sufficiency subordinate to a viable and firm view of existence. He critically integrates into his analyses and interpretations the positions of such well-known scholars as Frazer, Durkheim, Freud, Levi-Strauss, Radcliffe-Brown, Eliade, and Stanner. The volume will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology, and religion. |
| Publication: |
Canada |
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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