Manifestations symboliques d'une transition économique : le Juluru, culte intertribal du « cargo » (Australie occidentale et centrale)

Practice, politics and ideology of the ‘travelling business’ in Aboriginal religion

“…It tells an outward story of a ship disaster, that is open enough to perform in front of tourists (Petri 1983). A structural analysis reveals an implicit claim to take over the position of whites (Glowczewski 1983). There is also a typical mythical link to Dreaming events presented to the male anthropologist (Kolig 1979).…”

“…15. Glowczewski (1983) claims that there is a manipulative, magic aspect to the djuluru among the Walbiri, referring to the particular way dancers change their positions in keysequences of the performance. Even if her conclusions are valid the attempt to influence economic and political relations by ritual means is very oblique, probably not clear to most participants, and quite different from the explicitly magical practices of the kurangara.…”

“…The dju/uru has at its base a corroboree with a relatively fixed sequence of dances illustrating a ship disaster and modern war scenes. Our first account of a dju/uru ceremony reaches back to the 1920s (Glowczewski 1983;cf. Petri 1983).…”

“…A few short episodes in the dju/uru ceremony, during which sacred objects are exposed, exclude women and children. The ritual was interpreted as an expression of Aboriginal historical thought (Petri 1983), as an acknowledgement of the shaping of the world by forces other than those of the Dreaming (Kolig 1979),and as an expression of a demand for European goods (Glowczewski 1983).…”

Law's Anthropology : From ethnography to expert testimony in native title

“…In 1980, she recorded Paddy Roe's recollection of the ritual that he had observed at La Grange years before. She recognised it as having strong similarities with a Warlpiri ceremony (Juluru), which she had witnessed in 1979 (Glowczewski 1983). Glowczewski eventually moved to Broome permanently and married local Aboriginal filmmaker Wayne Barker, whom she met in Paris.…”