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Definition of Big Sunday in English: Big Sundaynoun Australian (in traditional Aboriginal culture) a major religious ceremony. he was heavily involved in organising Big Sunday Example sentencesExamples - It would have been a shame to overexpose her before Big Sunday.
- The problems surrounding Whitefellas' perceptions of Big Sunday concern ritual sex, and she analyses these issues in excellent multifaceted detail.
- His last statement on Murinbata religion is an unpublished document entitled 'Big Sunday at Peppiminarti'.
- At first he describes Big Sunday, almost dismissively, as 'a compensatory outlet' but a moment later he dignifies it with a 'concern for the continuity of life'.
- Among the Waibiri of the central west of the Northern Territory, the ritual complex is known as Big Sunday in Aboriginal English.
- The name 'Chunday' is clearly a linguistic reinterpretation of the term 'Sunday' or 'Big Sunday', which was an Aboriginal-English term for large regional religious ceremonies.
- This traditional law is the same as the Big Sunday which Stanner encountered in the 1930s and which the administration prohibited.
- He recounts men's enthusiasm when they were introduced to, and inducted into, a new religious form of practice called Big Sunday.
- He did not share Harney's confidence about the origin of Big Sunday.
- She sees in Big Sunday an imagination expanded by the experience of the most barbarous of frontiers, offering evidence of a continuing spiritual presence.
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