'Carl Strehlow headed the Lutheran Mission at Hermannsburg (N.T.)1894-1922. There he learned and documented in German the languages and customs of the Arrernte (Aranda) and Luritja (Loritja) people from the Central Australian area. Baron Moritz von Leonhardi edited and published his 5 volume work in Germany.' (Source: The University of Adelaide website)
Volumes contain:
v. 1. Mythen, Sagen und Märchen des Aranda-Stammes in Zentral-Australien
v. 2. Mythen, Sagen und Märchen des Loritja-Stammes ; Die totemistischen Vorstellungen und die Tjurunga der Aranda und Loritja
v. 3, Abt. 1 & 2. Die totemistischen Kulte der Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme
v. 4, Abt. 1 & 2. Das soziale Leben der Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme
v. 5. Die materielle Kultur der Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme.
The Aranda’s Pepa : An Introduction to Carl Strehlow's Masterpiece, Die Aranda-und Loritja-Stamme in Zentral-Australien (1907-1920)
Acton
:
ANU E Press
,
2013
9276230
2013
single work
non-fiction
'The German missionary Carl Strehlow (1871–1922) had a deep ethnographic interest in Aboriginal Australian cosmology and social life, which he documented in his 7-volume work Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien that remains unpublished in English. In 1913, Marcel Mauss called his collection of sacred songs and myths an Australian Rig Veda. This immensely rich corpus, based on a lifetime on the central Australian frontier, is barely known in the English-speaking world and is the last great body of early Australian ethnography that has not yet been built into the world of Australian anthropology and its intellectual history.'
'The German psychological and hermeneutic traditions of anthropology that developed outside of a British–Australian intellectual world were alternatives to 19th-century British scientism. The intellectual roots of early German anthropology reached back to Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), the founder of German historical particularism, who rejected the concept of race as well as the French dogma of the uniform development of civilisation. Instead, he recognised unique sets of values transmitted through history and maintained that cultures had to be viewed in terms of their own development and purpose. Thus, humanity was made up of a great diversity of ways of life, language being one of its main manifestations. It is this tradition that led to a concept of cultures in the plural.' (Source: Publisher's website)
The Aranda’s Pepa : An Introduction to Carl Strehlow's Masterpiece, Die Aranda-und Loritja-Stamme in Zentral-Australien (1907-1920)
Acton
:
ANU E Press
,
2013
9276230
2013
single work
non-fiction
'The German missionary Carl Strehlow (1871–1922) had a deep ethnographic interest in Aboriginal Australian cosmology and social life, which he documented in his 7-volume work Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien that remains unpublished in English. In 1913, Marcel Mauss called his collection of sacred songs and myths an Australian Rig Veda. This immensely rich corpus, based on a lifetime on the central Australian frontier, is barely known in the English-speaking world and is the last great body of early Australian ethnography that has not yet been built into the world of Australian anthropology and its intellectual history.'
'The German psychological and hermeneutic traditions of anthropology that developed outside of a British–Australian intellectual world were alternatives to 19th-century British scientism. The intellectual roots of early German anthropology reached back to Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), the founder of German historical particularism, who rejected the concept of race as well as the French dogma of the uniform development of civilisation. Instead, he recognised unique sets of values transmitted through history and maintained that cultures had to be viewed in terms of their own development and purpose. Thus, humanity was made up of a great diversity of ways of life, language being one of its main manifestations. It is this tradition that led to a concept of cultures in the plural.' (Source: Publisher's website)
The Aranda’s Pepa : An Introduction to Carl Strehlow's Masterpiece, Die Aranda-und Loritja-Stamme in Zentral-Australien (1907-1920)
Acton
:
ANU E Press
,
2013
9276230
2013
single work
non-fiction
'The German missionary Carl Strehlow (1871–1922) had a deep ethnographic interest in Aboriginal Australian cosmology and social life, which he documented in his 7-volume work Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien that remains unpublished in English. In 1913, Marcel Mauss called his collection of sacred songs and myths an Australian Rig Veda. This immensely rich corpus, based on a lifetime on the central Australian frontier, is barely known in the English-speaking world and is the last great body of early Australian ethnography that has not yet been built into the world of Australian anthropology and its intellectual history.'
'The German psychological and hermeneutic traditions of anthropology that developed outside of a British–Australian intellectual world were alternatives to 19th-century British scientism. The intellectual roots of early German anthropology reached back to Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), the founder of German historical particularism, who rejected the concept of race as well as the French dogma of the uniform development of civilisation. Instead, he recognised unique sets of values transmitted through history and maintained that cultures had to be viewed in terms of their own development and purpose. Thus, humanity was made up of a great diversity of ways of life, language being one of its main manifestations. It is this tradition that led to a concept of cultures in the plural.' (Source: Publisher's website)
