Water as country on the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands South Australia

Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 239-258

  Young, Diana ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian ethnography; Cosmological beliefs; Indigenous landscapes; Rain; Spatial relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 45149102913     PISSN: 13635247     EISSN: 15685357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853506777965839     Document Type: Article

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