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Author Bradley, John, 1959-

Title Singing saltwater country : journey to the songlines of Carpentaria / John Bradley with Yanyuwa families
Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2010
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2010

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Description xxiii, 303 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.̀That meat---he's got a song' -- 2.̀You have to learn him, you belong to Mambaliya' -- 3.̀Not like the bread of white men' -- 4.Knowing what old people knew -- 5.Chasing after the Dingo -- 6.Tangled up in the Law -- 7.Broken songs -- 8.̀It makes the country tremble' -- 9.Putting it down
Summary John Bradley's compelling account of three decades living with the Yanyuwa people of the Gulf of Carpentaria and of how the elders revealed to him the ancient songlines of their Dreaming
Analysis Australian Aboriginal studies
Aborigines
Northern Territory
Gulf of Carpentaria
Aboriginal culture
Social customs
Teachers
Autobiography
Bradley, John
Yanyuwa (Australian people)
Borroloola Region (NT)
Notes Includes glossary of aboriginal words
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Bradley, John (John James), 1959-
Bradley, John (John James), 1959-
Bradley, John, 1959-.
Bradley, John, 1959 June 12-.
Bradley, John, 1959-
Ethnoarchaeology -- Northern Territory
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Social life and customs
Yanyuwa (Australian people) -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Social life and customs
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Borroloola Region
Teachers -- Northern Territory -- Borroloola -- Biography
Yanyuwa language.
Yanyuwa (Australian people) -- Social life and customs
Yanyuwa (Australian people)
Teachers -- Australia -- Borroloola (N.T.) -- Biography
Yanyuwa language N153.
Manners and customs.
Teachers.
Music - Vocal - Clan songs.
Music - Instruments - Percussion.
Culture - Relationship to place.
Language.
Sites - Dreaming tracks.
Religion - Dreaming.
Religion - Dreaming - Seven Sisters.
Religion - Dreaming - Rainbow Serpent.
Religion - Dreaming - Birds.
Religion - Dreaming - Plants.
Religion - Dreaming - Spirits.
Stories and motifs.
Stories and motifs - Animals.
Stories and motifs - Weapons - Boomerangs.
Stories and motifs - Brolga.
Stories and motifs - Celestial phenomena.
Stories and motifs - Climate and weather.
Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology.
Stories and motifs - Dingoes / dogs.
Stories and motifs - Eagles / hawks / crows.
Stories and motifs - Snakes.
Stories and motifs - Kangaroos / Wallabies.
Stories and motifs - Sharks.
Initiation.
Culture - Relationship to land.
Indigenous knowledge - World view.
Weapons - Boomerangs - Making.
History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous.
Land rights - Claims, disputes, hearings.
Law - Indigenous.
Language - Linguistics - Language elicitation - Translated.
Yanyuwa / Yanuwa people (N153) (NT SE53-04)
Yanyuwa / Yanuwa language (N153) (NT SE53-04)
SUBJECT Borroloola (N.T.) -- Social life and customs
Subject Northern Territory -- Borroloola.
Borroloola (North NT SE53-03)
Genre/Form Biography.
Biographies.
Author Yanyuwa families
LC no. 2010497201
ISBN 9781742372419 (pbk.)