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editI live in Spain; my mother language is Spanish, and have never been in Australia. A few months ago I started to contribute to Wikipedia but... a couple of Wikipedia administrators confused me with a banned Australian Wikipedian and, without any sort of IP check whatsoever, blocked me! Although another admin unblocked me, I was never vindicated. Yes: I complained in many boards. But no one listened to me, even if I challenged the blocking admins to point out to a single disrupting diff from me (I have never disrupted any page whatsoever), or to run IP checks. I was ignored.
Therefore, I will retire from editing Wikipedia --for ever.
By the way, the administrators who confused me with the banned Australian Wikipedian were very zealous in censoring evidence concerning infanticide in Australia. Below I add the great chunks they removed from the Infanticide article:
Whole section censored!:
editOceania
editInfanticide among the autochthone people in the Oceania islands is widespread. In some areas of the Fiji islands up to 50% of newborn infants were killed.[1] In the 19th century Ugi, in the Solomon islands almost 75% of the indigenous children had been brought from adjoining tribes due to the high incidence rate of infanticide, a unique feature of these tribal societies.[2] In another Solomon island, San Cristóbal, the firstborn was considered "ahubweu" and often buried alive.[3]
As a rationale for their behavior, some parents in British New Guinea complained: "Girls [...] don't become warriors, and they don't stay to look for us in our old age."[4]
Australia
editAccording to the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski's book on indigenous Australians, "infanticide is practiced among all Australian natives."[5] Brough Smyth, a 19th century researcher, estimated that in Victoria about 30% of the births resulted in infanticide.[6] Mildred Dickeman concurs that that figure is accurate in other Australia tribes as a result of a surplus of the birthrate.[7] In Queensland a tribal woman could have children after the age of thirty. In other places, babies would be killed.[8][dubious – discuss] The Aranda in the Northern Territory used the method of choking the newborn with coal, sand or kill her with a stick.[9] Twins were always killed by the Arrernte in central Australia.[9] Aram Yengoyan calculated that, in Western Australia, the Pitjandjara people killed 19% of their newborns.[10]
Polynesia
editIn ancient Polynesian societies infanticide was common.[11] Families were supposed to rear no more than two children. Writing about the natives, Raymond Firth noted: "If another child is born, it is buried in the earth and covered with stones".[12]
Hawaii
editIn Hawaii infanticide was a socially sanctioned practice before the Christian missions.[13] Infanticidal methods included strangling the children or, more frequently, burying them alive.[14]
Tahiti
editInfanticide was quite intense in Tahiti.[11] Methods included suffocation, neck breaking and strangulation.[15]
Two more removals when I was illegally blocked:
editLucien Lévy-Brühl noted that, because of fear of a drought, if a baby was born feet first in British East Africa, she or he was smothered.[16] The Tswana people did the same since they feared the newborn would bring ill fortune to the parents.[17] Similarly, William Sumner noted that the Vadshagga killed children whose upper incisors came first.[18]
It has been estimated that 40% of newborn babies were killed in Kyūshū.[19]
In The Child in Primitive Society, Nathan Miller wrote in the 1920s that among the Kuni tribe every mother had killed at least one of her children.[20] Child sacrifice was practiced as late as 1929 in Zimbabwe, where a daughter of the tribal chief used to be sacrificed as a petition of rain.[21]
Notes
edit- ^ McLennan, J.F. (1886). Studies in Ancient History, The Second Series. NY: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Guppy, H.B. (1887). The Solomon Islands and Their Natives. London: Swan Sonnenschein. p. 42.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Frazer, J.G. (1935). The Golden Bough. NY: Macmillan Co. pp. 332–333.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Langness, L.L. (1984), "Child abuse and cultural values: the case of New Guinea", in Korbin, Jill (ed.), Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 15
- ^ Malinowski, Bronislaw (1963). The Family Among the Australian Aborigines. NY: Scocken Books. p. 235.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Smyth, Brough (1878). The Aborigines of Victoria. London: John Ferres.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Dickeman, Mildred (1975). "Demographic consequences of infanticide in man". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 6: 121. doi:10.1146/annurev.es.06.110175.000543.
- ^ Cowlishaw, Gillian (1978). "Infanticide in aboriginal Australia". Oceania. 48 (4): 267. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1978.tb01351.x.
- ^ a b Murdock, G.P. (1971). Our Primitive Contemporaries. NY: MacMillan.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Yengoyan, Aram (1972). "Biological and demographic components in aboriginal Australian socio-economic organization". Oceania. 43 (2): 88. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1972.tb00319.x. PMID 12260935.
- ^ a b Ritchie, Jane (1979). Growing Up in Polynesia. Sydney: George Allen & Unwin.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Firth, Raymond (1983). Primitive Polynesian Economy. London: Routledge. p. 44.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Dibble, Sheldon (1839). History and General Views of the Sandwich Islands Mission. NY: Taylor & Dodd. p. 123.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Handy, E.S. (1958). The Polynesian Family System in Ka-'U, Hawaii. New Plymouth, New Zealand: Avery Press. p. 327.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Oliver, Douglas (1974). Ancient Tahitan Society. Honolulu: University Press of Hawii. Volume I, 425.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Lévy-Brühl, Lucien (1923). Primitive Mentality. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. p. 150.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Schapera, I.A. (1955). A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom. London: Oxford University Press. p. 261.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Sumner, William (1956 [originally published in 1906]). Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals. London: Oxford University Press. p. 274.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Kushe, Helga (1985). Should the Baby Live?. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 106.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Miller, Nathan (1928). The Child in Primitive Society. NY: Bretano's. p. 37.
{{cite book}}: Text "doi" ignored (help) - ^ Davies, Nigel (1981). Human Sacrifice. NY: William Morrow & Co. ISBN 0333223845.