When Ellen has been shipwrecked ashore the Australian mainland, she is faced with a society of people who exhibit values and attitudes far different to those of her own Anglo-Centric society. The Indigenous Australians, the Aborigines, who, in the time era of the text, are the major occupants of Australia, are a society who, unlike the Anglo-Centric society of England, value the importance of the land, and the harmony that must be achieved between humankind and their environment. ...

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He studied research of the religious beliefs and practices of Australian aborigines and studied the practice of totemism and argues that the totem acts as a symbol for the religion and it stands for the values within the religion, therefore worship of the totem is worship of the social group itself and so this maintains society. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate