Bodily Connections and Practising Relatedness: Aboriginal Family and Funerals in Rural North Queensland.

The article discusses how funeral practices of Australian aborigines in North Queensland revitalize their kinship relations. The family takes control when an Australian aborigine passes away. Family kinship is manifested by the support that kins provide the family of the deceased, such as traveling great distances to attend the wake and funeral. The ties that created the sociality of the deceased are re-created among those who are present, and even those absent, in the funeral.