Arunta

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

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

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.

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

The traditions of the Arunta seem here to be first accepted: “quite possibly” they are correct in stating that an exogamic system was purposefully introduced, long after totemic groups had arisen, by “the deliberate action of certain ancestors,” and then that myth is rejected, in favour of the gradual development of exogamy, “out of some form of organization,” unknown.