Practice, politics and ideology of the ‘travelling business’ in Aboriginal religion

Widlok, Thomas

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1992.tb02408.x

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“…There have been two overviews of the reports of Kurangara , by Widlok (1992) and Swain (1993:239ff, 270). These adopted the spellings kurangara and Kuranggara , respectively, and neither referred to Duncan‐Kemp.…”

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“…A particular historical travelling religious complex in northern Western Australia, usually known as Kurangara , has been the subject of anthropological attention since reports by Worms (1942, 2015), Lommel (1950:21–24), and Petri (1950, 1967), and the popular account by Wilson (1954). Subsequently Akerman (1979:239, 240), Kolig (1981a:Map 4, 114, 134), Widlok (1992) and Swain (1993:239ff, 270) discussed it as one ‘travelling business’ in wider study of Australian religion and politics.…”

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Kurangara in Queensland?: A Critique of Duncan‐Kemp's Account

Nash

2023

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A particular historical travelling religious complex in northern Western Australia, usually known as Kurangara, has been the subject of anthropological attention since the late 1930s. Overlooked in all the literature is a similar account assigned to 1912–1918, in the distant Channel Country of southwest Queensland. This is in Alice Duncan‐Kemp's last book, published in 1968. My examination shows that a good deal of Duncan‐Kemp's account repeated parts of a 1954 popular magazine about Kurangara in the Pilbara. In other respects Duncan‐Kemp may have drawn on her own childhood experiences, but in the absence of corroboration her account has to be considered unreliable.

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Kurangara in Queensland?: A Critique of Duncan‐Kemp's Account

Nash

2023

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“…across the whole continent (Widlok 1992). Among hunter-gatherers of the central African forest, rituals are regularly paid for in such transactions.…”

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Hunting and gathering

Widlok¹

2020

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“…This has been in the form of a steady stream of German postgraduate students coming to work with Aboriginal people, some registered in German-speaking countries and others in Australia (e.g. see Musharbash 2008;Eickelkamp 2001;Heil 2003;Kenny 2013;Duelke 1998;Stotz 1993;Widlok 1992;Weichart 1997). Their interests in psychoanalysis, phenomenology and material culture are now partly tinged with the form of British social anthropological practice found in Australia today, which itself is more correctly seen as a mid-Atlantic mix.…”

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