Ritual and exchange in Aboriginal Australia : an adaptive interpretation of male initiation rites. 1972.

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Ritual and exchange in Aboriginal Australia : an adaptive interpretation of male initiation rites. 1972.

Attempts to offer a possible explanation for the variations in the ethnographic distribution of these practices throughout the continent; distinguishes types of rituals, social organisation of groups practising subincision & circumcision, spatial distribution of rites, population densities.

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