The Native Tribes of Central Australia
Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
The 1899 ethnography of the Arrernte and neighboring peoples that Durkheim and Freud built on: totems, initiation ceremonies, sacred objects and myths of the ancestors.
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