People, countries, and the Rainbow Serpent: Systems of classification among the Lardil of Mornington Island . By David McKnight. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics 12.) New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 270.

Abstract

The Lardil, an Australian Aboriginal tribe, have a rich and complex cognitive culture and are native speakers of three different languages, each used for separate occasions. McKnight examines their systems of classifying the world, and creates the first inventory of the cognitive aspects of an Aboriginal tribe's social structures (including kinship, myth, and ritual).

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