Mardu
Zoulfia Mirzoeva
25-11-2003
The Mardu Aborigines
Location and origins: Western Desert of Australia. The Aborigines came directly from regions such as Africa, India, and Japan. (White& Lambert 1987). Because the water is crucial variable the Aborigines movement was correlated most of the times with its occurrence in particular localities.
Language: Australian. Had a different dialect but the same pattern. It is possible to relate language to the Dravidian family or south Indian groups of languages.
Physical appearance: dark skin pigmentation, pronounced brow ridges, broad noses, and slender arm, legs, and buttocks. Women 5`2”in height, men about 5`6”.
Culture: Aborigines shared the same basic economic strategy, hunting and gathering etc. The band was the basic economic group with a sexual division of labour and the emphasis on food sharing that together allowed more efficient resource exploitation. Important aspects of Mardu traditional culture relating to kinship, values and religion, retain their centrality.
Religion.
The Dreaming: That, what they believed in. The Dreaming is crucial because it is held to be the source of all power, released in the response of performance. (Source of new knowledge). They share Dreaming heritage through the media of myths, rituals, and song lines, futures of the landscape and portable objects of many kinds. Dreaming is a fundamental and complex conception, not only embracing the creative past and the ordering the world but also having a great relevance to the present and the future Aboriginal existence.
The Aboriginal society is more accurately viewed as existing for the sake of religion (Charlesworth 1984).
Subsistence Activities.
Food –collecting activities occupy more that a half of the day.
All decisions about the food collecting, weather conditions, individual inclinations are made by man and women.
Man and youth seek large game as kangaroos,
25-11-2003
The Mardu Aborigines
Location and origins: Western Desert of Australia. The Aborigines came directly from regions such as Africa, India, and Japan. (White& Lambert 1987). Because the water is crucial variable the Aborigines movement was correlated most of the times with its occurrence in particular localities.
Language: Australian. Had a different dialect but the same pattern. It is possible to relate language to the Dravidian family or south Indian groups of languages.
Physical appearance: dark skin pigmentation, pronounced brow ridges, broad noses, and slender arm, legs, and buttocks. Women 5`2”in height, men about 5`6”.
Culture: Aborigines shared the same basic economic strategy, hunting and gathering etc. The band was the basic economic group with a sexual division of labour and the emphasis on food sharing that together allowed more efficient resource exploitation. Important aspects of Mardu traditional culture relating to kinship, values and religion, retain their centrality.
Religion.
The Dreaming: That, what they believed in. The Dreaming is crucial because it is held to be the source of all power, released in the response of performance. (Source of new knowledge). They share Dreaming heritage through the media of myths, rituals, and song lines, futures of the landscape and portable objects of many kinds. Dreaming is a fundamental and complex conception, not only embracing the creative past and the ordering the world but also having a great relevance to the present and the future Aboriginal existence.
The Aboriginal society is more accurately viewed as existing for the sake of religion (Charlesworth 1984).
Subsistence Activities.
Food –collecting activities occupy more that a half of the day.
All decisions about the food collecting, weather conditions, individual inclinations are made by man and women.
Man and youth seek large game as kangaroos,