Title Outback / Thomas Keneally ; with photographs by Gary Hansen and Mark Lang

Published Sydney : Hodder and Stoughton, 1983

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	994.29 Ken		AVAILABLE
MELB	994 KEN-O		AVAILABLE

Description 256 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 26 cm Contents Includes index Summary Profile of life in the Northern Territory in character sketches and anecdotes with considerable Aboriginal content focusing on world view and cosmology; mentions numerous tribes including Warlpiri, Jankuntjatjara, Gagadju, Pintubi, Pintjantjatjara; alcohol and petrol sniffing; life on missions, settlements and out-stations; (mining royalties, legal aspects land councils); relationship to land mythological associations; Ayers Rock (Uluru) totems; x-ray paintings at Nourlangles Rock, Obiri Rock; Kaditja men; the ngangnkari (Aboriginal physician), Aboriginal health workers and concepts of health and illness; experience of Pintubi man charged with murder with European legal system Analysis Australia. Rural regions. Social life Notes Includes index Library's N copy has signed by Thomas Keneally, 1 December 2011. ANL Maps on lining papers Bibliography Includes index Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection Subject Country life -- Australia. Country life -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Photography -- Australia -- Northern Territory. SUBJECT Australia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579 Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Rural conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007670 Australia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 -- 1976- Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 -- 1976-1990 Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 Author Hansen, Gary. Lang, Mark. ISBN 0340336692

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