Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion

Download or read book Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion written by Ian Keen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yolngu religious practices are shrouded in ambiguity--people cooperate in common religious rituals while interpreting these rituals in entirely different manners. Keen draws on recent post-structuralist social theory to discuss this heterogeneity of culture and ritual. This original approach to interpreting the heterogeneous culture of the Yolngu will be of great interest to those studying multicultural societies outside Australia, particularly in the fields of comparative anthropology and religion.