Arunta

[uh-ruhn-tuh]

noun

plural

Aruntas ,

plural

Arunta .

1. Aranda.

Example Sentences

Quine articulated the indeterminacy of translation thesis by using a word in the unknown language of the Arunta Aboriginal tribe.

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The frigate Arunta passed through the South China Sea with an Australian navy supply ship two weeks ago.

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The rite of initiation is a curious echo of the Engwura ceremony of the Arunta tribe in Central Australia as described by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen.

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But they do not tell us whether the Arunta belief includes the sanction, by Twangirika, of morality.

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Again, the other tribes cannot have passed through the Arunta stage, for, if they had, their totems would have existed, as among the Arunta, in both exogamous moieties, and would there remain when they came to be inherited; 163 so that the totems of all these tribes would still be non-exogamous, like those of the Arunta.

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