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Walkabout is a term dating to the pastoral era in which large numbers of Aboriginal Australians were employed on cattle stations. During the tropical wet season, when there was little work on the stations, many would return to their traditional life on country. The term was also used to describe unexplained absences of any kind.
Walkabout is a rite of passage journey during adolescence, often mis-applied. A welcome to country is a ritual now performed at many events held in Australia, intended to highlight the cultural significance of the surrounding area to a particular Aboriginal group. The welcome must be performed by a recognised elder of the group.
Vision quest. A vision quest is a rite of passage in some Native American cultures. Individual Indigenous cultures have their own names for their rites of passage. "Vision quest" is an English-language umbrella term, and may not always be accurate or used by the cultures in question. Among Native American cultures who have this type of rite, it ...
Rites of Passage is a music theatre work written by the Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe in 1972–73. It is often categorised as an opera, but it does not conform to the traditional concept of opera. It is written for dancers depicting the ritual of initiation of the Aranda people, an indigenous tribe; double SATB chorus singing words from ...
11073830. Walkabout is a novel written by James Vance Marshall (a pseudonym for Donald G. Payne), first published in 1959 as The Children. [1] It is about two children, a teenage sister and her younger brother, who get lost in the Australian Outback and are helped by an Indigenous Australian teenage boy on his walkabout.
To that end, King Charles and Queen Camilla will not visit nearby New Zealand (another Commonwealth country) when they go to Australia and Samoa from Friday, Oct. 18 to Saturday, Oct. 26. When the ...
1994-. Known for. Walkabout Ministries. First Aboriginal woman Anglican priest. First woman chair of National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglican Council. Gloria Shipp (born 1948) is an Anglican priest, the first Aboriginal woman ordained as deacon [1] and then as priest in the Anglican Church of Australia [2] [3] and the first woman ...
The idea of “Rumspringa” has a specific spot in the American imagination. A rite of passage for young people in some Amish communities, Rumspringa is seen by most outsiders as a wild time away ...