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W_5_15 — Aboriginal Australian Civilizations: 65,000 Years of Continuous Culture

Aboriginal Australians represent the oldest continuous cultural tradition in the world — with archaeological evidence of human occupation of the Australian continent dating back at least 65,000 years (Madjedbebe rock she

Aboriginal Australia Dreamtime Dreaming songlines rock art

C_5_16 Verified Global Traditions

C_5_16 — Animal Totemism: Species as Identity, Ancestor, and Guide

Totemism — the system of belief and practice in which a social group (clan, moiety, or individual) maintains a special spiritual, ancestral, or symbolic relationship with a natural species or phenomenon — has been one of

totemism animal totem clan emblem ancestor animal spirit animal Lévi-Strauss

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ZC_4_02 — Kinship Systems and Social Organization Across Cultures

Kinship — the system of social relationships and categories through which human societies classify relatives, define obligations, regulate marriage, organize inheritance, and structure political authority — is the founda

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ZC_4_18 Verified Social Science

ZC_4_18 — Aboriginal Australian Kinship Systems

Aboriginal Australian kinship systems represent some of the most elaborate social classification frameworks ever documented by anthropology. Operating through moiety (2-part), section (4-part), and subsection (8-part) sy

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N_5_04 Verified Secret Societies

N_5_04 — Secret Initiatory Traditions in Indigenous America

The indigenous peoples of the Americas developed an extraordinary diversity of secret initiatory societies — ceremonial organizations with restricted membership, graded initiation, guarded esoteric knowledge, and defined

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