‘Sorry Business is Yapa Way’: Warlpiri Mortuary Rituals as Embodied Practice

Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 21-36

  Musharbash, Yasmine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 85144347674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315248646-9     Document Type: Chapter

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