# Maban

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{{about||the ethnic group|Maban people|the languages|Maban languages}}
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'''Maban''', '''mabain''' or '''mabanba''' is a material that is held to be [magic](/source/magic_(paranormal))al in some [Australian Aboriginal mythology](/source/Australian_Aboriginal_mythology). It is the material from which the [shaman](/source/shaman)s and elders of Indigenous Australia supposedly derive their magical powers.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

Among the [Ngaanyatjarra](/source/Ngaanyatjarra) people, practitioners are known as '''maparn''' or '''maparnjarra'''.

==References==
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* [A. P. Elkin](/source/A._P._Elkin) (1973). ''Aboriginal Men of High Degree: Initiation and Sorcery in the World's Oldest Tradition''. Inner Traditions. 
* [Munn, Nancy D.](/source/Munn%2C_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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Category:Australian Aboriginal mythology
Category:Mythological substances

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