The Importance of Marrying ‘Straight’: Aboriginal Marriage and Mission Monogamy in Twentieth-century North Australia

Laura Rademaker

doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12319

The Importance of Marrying ‘Straight’: Aboriginal Marriage and Mission Monogamy in Twentieth-century North Australia

Laura Rademaker^*

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I am talking about marriages of the old people. Long ago the old people were straight. They followed that same marriage for taking women for their wives. Only marriage. Only aÅ‹gwa [marriage]. They went according to that long ago, because it was not just anyhow. But they took it right, straight. Today at Angurugu we have married close because of the Mission, because of the white people.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	641-657
Number of pages	17
Journal	Gender and History
Volume	29
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12319
Publication status	Published - Nov 2017

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