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Cleverman, the Glossary

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A cleverman is a traditional healer and keeper of culture in many Aboriginal cultures of Australia.[1]

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  1. 67 relations: Aṉangu, Aboriginal Australians, Arnhem Land, Arrernte people, Australia, Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Australian Aboriginal culture, Australian Aboriginal English, Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Bahloo, Baiame, Bidhawal, Bidjigal, Bininj, Bininj Kunwok, British Empire, Bundjalung people, Bunuba, Butcher Joe Nangan, Christian mission, Cleverman (TV series), Closing the Gap, Dalabon people, Diyari, Eora, Euthanasia, Folk healer, Galibal, Gamilaraay, Gumbaynggirr, Gunaikurnai people, Initiation, Jandamarra, Kimberley (Western Australia), Kurdaitcha, Maban, Martu people, Medicine, Medicine man, Mimi (folklore), National Museum of Australia, Ngangkari, Nocebo, Noongar, Nyigina language, Oceania (journal), Paddy Compass Namadbara, Pemulwuy, Pitjantjatjara, ... Expand index (17 more) »

  2. Australian Aboriginal words and phrases
  3. Traditional healthcare occupations
  4. Witchcraft

Aṉangu

Aṉangu is the name used by members of several Aboriginal Australian groups, roughly approximate to the Western Desert cultural bloc, to describe themselves. Cleverman and Aṉangu are Australian Aboriginal words and phrases.

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Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.

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Arnhem Land

Arnhem Land is a historical region of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Arrernte people

The Arrernte people, sometimes referred to as the Aranda, Arunta or Arrarnta, are a group of Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the Arrernte lands, at Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and surrounding areas of the Central Australia region of the Northern Territory. Many still speak one of the various Arrernte dialects.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Aboriginal astronomy

Australian Aboriginal astronomy has been passed down orally, through ceremonies, and in their artwork of many kinds.

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Australian Aboriginal culture

Australian Aboriginal culture includes a number of practices and ceremonies centered on a belief in the Dreamtime and other mythology.

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Australian Aboriginal English

Australian Aboriginal English (AAE or AbE) is a cover term used for the complex, rule-governed varieties of English used by a large section of the Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander) population as a result of colonisation. Cleverman and Australian Aboriginal English are Australian Aboriginal culture.

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Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology

Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology is the sacred spirituality represented in the stories performed by Aboriginal Australians within each of the language groups across Australia in their ceremonies.

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Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), established as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1964, is an independent Australian Government statutory authority.

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Bahloo

In Gamilaraay mythology, Bahloo is a male spirit representing the moon.

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Baiame

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Baiame (or Biame, Baayami, Baayama or Byamee) is the creator god and sky father in the Dreaming of several Aboriginal Australian peoples of south-eastern Australia, such as the Wonnarua, Kamilaroi, Guringay, Eora, Darkinjung, and Wiradjuri peoples.

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Bidhawal

The Bidawal (also known as Bidhawal and Bidwell) were an Australian Aboriginal tribe of Gippsland, Victoria.

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Bidjigal

The Bidjigal (also spelt Bediagal, Bejigal, Bedegal or Biddegal) people are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands are modern-day western, north-western, south-eastern, and southern Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Cleverman and Bidjigal are Australian Aboriginal culture.

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Bininj

The Bininj are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Arnhem land in the Northern Territory.

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Bininj Kunwok

Bininj Kunwok is an Australian Aboriginal language which includes six dialects: Kunwinjku (formerly Gunwinggu), Kuninjku, Kundjeyhmi (formerly Gundjeihmi), Manyallaluk Mayali (Mayali), Kundedjnjenghmi, and two varieties of Kune (Kune Dulerayek and Kune Narayek).

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Bundjalung people

The Bundjalung people, also spelled Bunjalung, Badjalang and Bandjalang, are Aboriginal Australians who are the original custodians of a region from around Grafton in northern coastal New South Wales to Beaudesert in south-east Queensland.

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Bunuba

The Bunuba (also known as Bunaba, Punapa, Punuba) are a group of Indigenous Australians and are one of the traditional owners of the southern West Kimberley, in Western Australia.

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Butcher Joe Nangan

Joe Nangan (Butcher Joe Nangan) (1900-1989) was an Aboriginal Australian lawman, jalngunguru (healer or cleverman) and artist.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith.

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Cleverman (TV series)

Cleverman is an Australian television drama program based on an original concept by Ryan Griffen.

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Closing the Gap

The Closing the Gap framework is a strategy by the Commonwealth and state and territory governments of Australia that aims to reduce disparity between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians on key health, education and economic opportunity targets.

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Dalabon people

The Dalabon or Dangbon are an Australian Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.

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Diyari

The Diyari, alternatively transcribed as Dieri, is an Indigenous Australian group of the South Australian desert originating in and around the delta of Cooper Creek to the east of Lake Eyre.

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Eora

The Eora (also Yura) are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales.

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Euthanasia

Euthanasia (from lit: label + label) is the practice of intentionally ending life to eliminate pain and suffering.

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Folk healer

A folk healer is an unlicensed person who practices the art of healing using traditional practices, herbal remedies, and the power of suggestion. Cleverman and folk healer are traditional healthcare occupations.

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Galibal

The Kalibal (Gullibul) were an Indigenous Australian people of New South Wales.

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Gamilaraay

The Gamilaroi, also known as Gomeroi, Kamilaroi, Kamillaroi and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people whose lands extend from New South Wales to southern Queensland.

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Gumbaynggirr

The Gumbaynggirr people, also rendered Kumbainggar, Gumbangeri and other variant spellings, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Mid North Coast of New South Wales.

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Gunaikurnai people

The Gunaikurnai or Gunai/Kurnai people, also referred to as the Gunnai or Kurnai, are an Aboriginal Australian nation of south-east Australia.

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Initiation

Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society.

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Jandamarra

Jandamarra or Tjandamurra (c. 1873—1 April 1898), known to European settlers as Pigeon,, in: Taylor (2004) was an Aboriginal Australian man of the Bunuba people who led one of many organised armed insurrections against the European colonisation of Australia.

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Kimberley (Western Australia)

The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Kurdaitcha

A kurdaitcha, or kurdaitcha man, also spelt gadaidja, cadiche, kadaitcha, karadji, or kaditcha (Arrernte orthography: kwertatye), is a type of shaman and traditional executioner amongst the Arrernte people, an Aboriginal group in Central Australia. Cleverman and kurdaitcha are Australian Aboriginal culture, Australian Aboriginal words and phrases and witchcraft.

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Maban

Maban, mabain or mabanba is a material that is held to be magical in Australian Aboriginal mythology.

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Martu people

The Martu (Mardu) are a grouping of several Aboriginal Australian peoples in the Western Desert cultural bloc.

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Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.

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Medicine man

A medicine man (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwinini) or medicine woman (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwininiikwe) is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of Indigenous people of the Americas. Cleverman and medicine man are traditional healthcare occupations.

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Mimi (folklore)

Mimis (or Mimih spirits) are fairy-like beings of Arnhem Land in the folklore of the Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia.

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National Museum of Australia

The National Museum of Australia (NMA), in the national capital Canberra, preserves and interprets Australia's social history, exploring the key issues, people and events that have shaped the nation.

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Ngangkari

Ngangkari are the traditional healers of the Anangu, the Aboriginal peoples who live mostly in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY Lands) of South Australia and the Western Desert region, which includes parts of the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

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Nocebo

A nocebo effect is said to occur when a patient's negative expectations for a treatment cause the treatment to have a worse effect than it otherwise would have.

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Noongar

The Noongar (also spelt Noongah, Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast.

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Nyigina language

Nyikina (also Nyigina, Njigina) is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia, spoken by the Nyigina people.

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Oceania (journal)

Oceania is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1930.

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Paddy Compass Namadbara

Paddy Compass Namadbara (also spelled Namatbara or Nabadbara), skin name Na-Bulanj, was an Aboriginal Australian artist and traditional healer, or marrkidjbu, from western Arnhem land.

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Pemulwuy

Pemulwuy (/pɛməlwɔɪ/ ''PEM-əl-woy''; c. 1750 – c. 2 June 1802) was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug, an Aboriginal Australian people from New South Wales.

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Pitjantjatjara

The Pitjantjatjara are an Aboriginal people of the Central Australian desert near Uluru.

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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society is a quarterly journal published by the American Philosophical Society since 1838.

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Rottnest Island

Rottnest Island (Wadjemup), often colloquially referred to as "Rotto", is a island off the coast of Western Australia, located west of Fremantle.

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Shamanism

Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.

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Studies in Comparative Religion

Studies in Comparative Religion was a quarterly academic journal published from 1963 to 1987 that contained essays on the spiritual practices and religious symbolism of the world's religions.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.

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The Dreaming

The Dreaming, also referred to as Dreamtime, is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.

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Voodoo death

Voodoo death, a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought about by a strong emotional shock, such as fear.

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Walmajarri language

Walmajarri (many other names; see below) is a Pama–Nyungan language spoken in the Kimberley region of Western Australia by the Walmadjari and related peoples.

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Wangkangurru

The Wangkangurru, also written Wongkanguru and Wangkanguru, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Simpson Desert area in the state of South Australia.

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Wayilwan

The Wayilwan (also rendered Weilwan or Wailwan; also known as Ngiyambaa Wayilwan and Ngemba Wayilwan) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of New South Wales.

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Wiradjuri

The Wiradjuri people are a group of Aboriginal Australian people from central New South Wales, united by common descent through kinship and shared traditions.

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Witch doctor

A witch doctor (also spelled witch-doctor) was originally a type of healer who treated ailments believed to be caused by witchcraft. Cleverman and witch doctor are traditional healthcare occupations.

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Yaygirr

The Yaygir, Yuraygir, or Yaegl, are an Australian Aboriginal tribe who traditionally live and lived in and around Yamba and Maclean, New South Wales.

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Yolŋu languages

Yolŋu Matha, meaning the 'Yolŋu tongue', is a linguistic family that includes the languages of the Yolngu (also known as the Yolŋu and Yuulngu languages), the indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia.

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Yolngu

The Yolngu or Yolŋu are an aggregation of Aboriginal Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Yowie

Yowie is one of several names for an Australian folklore entity that is reputed to live in the Outback.

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Yugambeh people

The Yugambeh ((see alternative spellings)), also known as the Minyangbal, or Nganduwal, are an Aboriginal Australian people of South East Queensland and the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, their territory lies between the Logan and Tweed rivers.

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See also

Australian Aboriginal words and phrases

Traditional healthcare occupations

Witchcraft

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleverman

, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Rottnest Island, Shamanism, Studies in Comparative Religion, The Age, The Dreaming, Voodoo death, Walmajarri language, Wangkangurru, Wayilwan, Wiradjuri, Witch doctor, Yaygirr, Yolŋu languages, Yolngu, Yowie, Yugambeh people.