Arunta

[ uh-ruhn-tuh ]

noun,plural A·run·tas, (especially collectively) A·run·ta.

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How to use Arunta in a sentence

  • Thus, unlike all other totemists, the Arunta do not inherit their totems either from father or mother, or both.

  • The Kaitish, as regards exogamy and religion, are a link between the primitive south-eastern tribes and the Arunta.

  • The only objection to this theory is that the Arunta themselves believe it, and mention the circumstance in their myths.

  • Thus, in marrying a woman of his totem, but not of his set of classes, a man does not break the law of Arunta exogamy.

  • Now how does it happen that a totem may be in both sets of exogamous classes among the Arunta alone of mankind?