Geographic Location

Geographic Location of the Aborigines

They are located in Australia. The estimated aborigines population in Australia is around 400,000 aborigines. They are organized in 500-600 different groups. By the 1880s most groups joined white communities.

Back Ground Info

Back Ground Information on the Aborigines

The Aborigines migrated to Australia around 50,000 years ago. It is believed that the Aborigines are descendants of African or South East Asian peoples. After migrating, the Aborigines dispersed across Australia over thousands of years, forming hundreds of distinct groups, each with its own language and culture. Many Aborigine groups still exist today and continue their ancestors' traditions and customs. Because of this, they have been dubbed as one of the oldest living cultures in the world.

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Ethnograpic information

Australian aborigines probably came from Asia around 40,000 years ago. They landed in Australia when The Earth was covered by ice. Some of the aborigines that were in Australia crossed to Tasmania trough a land bridge. The groups that stayed in Australia are the ancestors of today’s Australian aborigines. They form more than 500 different groups. There are also more than 200 different languages and dialects. This means that there is a great diversity in cultures and an enrichment of Australia.
The society is organized by a system that defines kinship and controls marriages. Each tribe controls the marriages and they have to get married with certain groups of the tribe. These groups are Karimera, Burug, Palyeri and Banaka. The tribes are divided and organized in these four different groups.
Their religion is based on the Dreaming, which is the Aboriginal creation story. They believed that their mythic ancestors gave shape to a shapeless word. These ancestors also create life, as we know it today.
Aborigines today have moved to suburbs and lost the traditional ways. They suffer all type of discrimination from society and even from the government. Small steps are being taken by the government to help the aborigines improve their situation and just like the African-American situation in America, this is going to take some time.
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  1. UnknownJune 6, 2015 at 2:32 PM

    What is this Ruben? Is this part of your first post? Or the background info? Kindly explain, and delete my comment, of course. You still need to write a reflexive comment somewhere. Thanks

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    1. UnknownJune 7, 2015 at 6:04 PM

      This was just some general information that I wanted to add on my own. I'll delete if it is not suppose to be here.

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