Professor W.E.H. Stanner’s account of Aboriginal religion was originally published as a series of articles in the journal Oceania between 1959 and 1963 and then gathered into Oceania Monograph 11 in 1963. Its continuing status as a classic led to a facsimile reproduction as Oceania Monograph 36 in 1989, with an Appreciation by Dr Francesca Merlan and an Introduction by Dr Les Hiatt, both of the University of Sydney. Continuing demand, and the usefulness of having a searchable version available online, led to this retyped reprint edition by Sydney University Press. I note that the page references to Stanner’s work in both Appreciation and Introduction are to the pages of this edition. There are also some minor corrections, omission of some cross-referencing and re-orientation of the original very large fold-out tables in which, however, we have tried to retain Stanner’s plan and structure.xii