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Author Rose, Deborah Bird, 1946-

Title Dingo makes us human : life and land in an Australian Aboriginal culture / Deborah Bird Rose
Edition Second edition
Published Oakleigh, Vic. : Cambridge University Press, 2000
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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 W'PONDS  306.0899915 Ros/Dmu 2000  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL  306.0899915 Ros/Dmu 2000  AVAILABLE
Description 249 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, portraits, maps ; 25 cm
Contents Remembrance -- Expectations -- Earthborn law -- Living and dead bodies -- An emu is not a catfish -- The gift of life -- Dream country -- To have and to hold -- Freehold -- Testing -- Jacky Jacky -- Life time -- This earth
Summary Deborah Bird Rose lived for two years with the Yarralin community in the Northern Territory's remote Victoria River Valley. This text represents a profile of the Yarralin people, addressing contemporary issues of concern
Notes Previous ed.: Cambridge ; Melbourne, 1992
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references (pages [238]-245) and index
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Yarralin (N.T.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Yarralin
Aboriginal Australians -- Religion.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Yarralin (N.T.) -- Government relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Yarralin (N.T.) -- Religion.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Yarralin (N.T.) -- Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Yarralin -- Religion
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Yarralin -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Yarralin (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90679688
Yarralin (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90679688 -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011436
LC no. 00002143
ISBN 0521794846