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Author Heather, McDonald

Title Blood, Bones and Spirit
Published Melbourne : Melbourne University Publishing, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages)
Contents Intro; Title; Contents; Preface; Editorial Note; Introduction; 1 People, Land and Spirit; 2 Mediterranean, European and Aboriginal Spirit Worlds; 3 Colonisation and Missionisation in the Kimberley; 4 Maddy Jarra's World History; 5 Following the Christian Way; 6 Churchgoing; 7 Conflicts with Missionaries; 8 Mother Earth versus the Lure of Infinite Space; Glossary of Aboriginal Words; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Copyright
Summary Examines Aboriginal people's experiences of colonialism and post- colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. This work analyzes how Aboriginal people have appropriated Biblical stories of land inheritance, expansion and loss in order to make sense of their own dispossession
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-233) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Fitzroy Crossing (W.A.) -- Religion
Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Australia -- Fitzroy Crossing (W.A.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Fitzroy Crossing (W.A.)
Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal Australians -- Missions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Religion.
Aborigines.
Christendom.
SUBJECT Kimberley (W.A.) -- Church history
Subject Western Australia -- Kimberley.
Genre/Form Church history.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0522862896
9780522862898