| Description |
xii, 148 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
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Cultural Survival studies in ethnicity and change |
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Cultural Survival studies in ethnicity and change.
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| Contents |
The Warramirri, 1920 onwards -- A divided nation: Australia at the crossroads, the beginning and the end of the reconciliation process?, legal recognition of Aboriginal human rights, Mabo and reconciliation, seeking a "compact" or "composition" -- Seeking reconciliation: what is reconciliation?, convention debates, self-determination and reconciliation, making a new start -- The Yolngu and their dreaming: chapter outlines, Elcho Islanders and their land, the Dreaming, Yolngu social structure, Yolngu, Macassans and Europeans, Warramirri Mala identity -- Dealing with outsiders: adoption into the Yolngu world, official visitors, reconciliation and the visitor, the changing nature of interaction, Aborigines, Macassans, missionaries, and politicians -- Warramirri initiatives: Burrumara - a life at center stage, setting the scene, the adjustment movement in Arnhem Land, flag treaty proposal, the Aboriginal and the Yolngu flags, the new generation -- Reconciliation and the Dreaming : living the dream, a "new" traditional perspective on Birrinydji and Walitha' Walitha, the mast and the flag, membership and remembership, Christianity and self-determination, implementing marginalization, the ARDS report, Christianity at Galiwin'ku, confronting marginalization, Aboriginal self-determination -- Aboriginal management of the sea: Warramiri sea dreamings, whale hunters and the Warramirri, a proposal for Yolngu management of the sea, the need for a strategy -- Mining, marginalization and the power of veto: the dilemma of mining, the playing field, Aboriginal responses, Burrumarra, Macassans and mining in Northeast Arnhem Land, whose interests are being served? -- Reconciliation on the world stage: international covenants, the Yolngu delegation to Switzerland, reuniting with the Macassans -- The road ahead: progress and regress, reconciliation in Arnhem Land |
| Summary |
Discusses the Warramiri stories on relationships with the Macassans and views on reconciliation, given their long history of contact; based on the stories of and conversations with David Burrumarra, Warramiri clan Elder; the Dreaming forms the basis of Warramiri reconciliation endeavours; describes Burrumarra's "membership and remembership" argument for reconciliation; Warramiri have been pursuing reconciliation for the past forty years; discusses the Birrinydji narrative |
| Notes |
Maps on endpapers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144) and index |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Religion.
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Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology)
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian.
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Yolngu (Australian people) -- Government relations.
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Reconciliation -- Religious aspects.
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Yolngu (Australian people) -- Religion.
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Yolngu (Australian people) -- Social conditions.
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| LC no. |
99461958 |
| ISBN |
0205297935 |
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