maban
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Maban, mabain or mabanba is a material that is held to be magical in Australian Aboriginal mythology. It is the material from which the shamans and elders of indigenous Australia supposedly derive their magical powers.{{cite journal |last1=Mudrooroo |doi=10.1080/02560049685310111 |title=Maban reality and shape-shifting the past: Strategies to sing the past our way |journal=Critical Arts |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=1–20 |year=1996 }}
Among the Ngaanyatjarra people, practitioners are known as maparn or maparnjarra.
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- A. P. Elkin (1973). Aboriginal Men of High Degree: Initiation and Sorcery in the World's Oldest Tradition. Inner Traditions.
- Munn, Nancy D. (1984). "The Transformation Of Subjects Into Objects in Walbiri and Pitjantjartjara Myths." In: M. Charlesworth, H. Morphy, D. Bell and K. Maddock, Eds. Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology. St. Lucia, Queensland: University Of Queensland Press.
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