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Die Aranda- Und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral Australien,
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Historical SummaryThere seems, however, no doubt that this is a mistaken interpretation and that the natives are perfectly aware of what is going on but maintain a dogma and fiction in order to support another feature of their social system. Strehlow, a missionary of long residence among the Arunta (called by him the Aranda), describes their ideas of reincarnation as connected with the fact that they do not know of procreation through the father, but he evidently means that they do not generally admit it, for in a footnote he adds:
I could not verify the statement of Spencer and Gillen that [copulation] is a sort of preparation for conception and birth. Moreover the old men knew, as I was assured, that cohabitation is to be considered as the cause of the conception of children, but say nothing about it to the young men and the women. It is certain that both the Aranda and Loritja know the relation between copulation and offspring among animals; even the children are enlightened upon that point.1
1Strehlow, C., n/an/an/an/an/a Theil 2: 52.
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Die Aranda- Und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral Australien, in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. Thomas, William I. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937), Original Sources, accessed June 30, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=YFLMIP9H7IRJ22U.
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. Die Aranda- Und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral Australien,, Vol. 2, in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, edited by Thomas, William I., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937, Original Sources. 30 Jun. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=YFLMIP9H7IRJ22U.
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, Die Aranda- Und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral Australien,. cited in 1937, Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. , McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 30 June 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=YFLMIP9H7IRJ22U.
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