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Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery

Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery

The Quest for Power in Northern Queensland

by David McKnight
Hardback
Publication Date: 22/06/2005
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This is a fascinating exploration of the relationship between marriage, violence and sorcery in an Australian Aboriginal Community, drawing on David McKnight's extensive research on Mornington Island. The case studies, which occurred both before and after a Presbyterian Mission was established on the island, allow McKnight to show how the complexities of kin ties and increased sexual competition help to explain incidences of violence and sorcery, without resorting to psychiatric justifications. He demonstrates that kin ties both stimulated conflict and helped to mitigate it. Following on from McKnight's previous book, Going the Whiteman's Way (Ashgate 2004), Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery offers an archive of valuable primary materials, drawing on the author's forty-year knowledge of the community on Mornington Island.
ISBN:
9780754644651
9780754644651
Category:
Sociology: family & relationships
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
22-06-2005
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
296
Dimensions (mm):
234x156x23mm
Weight:
0.71kg
David McKnight

David Mcknight is a well-known journalist, writer and academic. An Honorary Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia, his books include, Rupert Murdoch: an investigation of political power (published in the UK as Murdoch's Politics), as well as Big Coal (co-author) and Beyond Right and Left which discusses renewal of the progressive political vision.

He has also written on political surveillance during the cold war in Australia Spies and their Secrets and on Soviet intelligence in Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War.

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