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The social organisation of Wadeye's heavy metal mobs

Date

Authors

Mansfield, John

Publisher

Australian Anthropological Society Inc

Abstract

The heavy metal mobs of Wadeye (notorious in the media as 'heavy metal gangs') are a new form of Aboriginal social organisation, almost entirely constituted by collateral kinship rather than descent relations. Dozens of overlapping mobs are each made up o

Keywords

Aboriginal culture, intercultural theory, Murrinh Patha, social organisation, Wadeye

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/61485

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Australian Journal of Anthropology, The

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1111/taja.12035

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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