A Death in the Family : Some Torres Strait Ghost Stories single work   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 A Death in the Family : Some Torres Strait Ghost Stories
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In this paper the author begins the study by outlining the key myth of Aukam and Tiai then draws out the more obvious social and cultural implications. The author then moves to other myths, to illustrate their repetitions and they elements that seem to be implicit in the key myth.

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Mythology Australian Aboriginal Mythology : Essays in Honour of W.E.H. Stanner L. R. Hiatt (editor), Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies , 1975 6959241 1975 anthology criticism essay

    'Papers by M. Blows, A.C. van der Leeden, K. Maddock, I.M. White, L.R. Hiatt, J. Beckett and Appendix of translations of A. van Gennep annotated separately.' (Source: TROVE)

         Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies , 1975     pg. 163-182
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  • Torres Strait Islands, Queensland,
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