Description |
xii, 219 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm |
Summary |
Popular account of authors encounters with Aboriginal people and culture in the Kimberley and Great Sandy Desert; definition of Dreamtime, contemporary political background; based on conversations with Daisy Utemorrah, Ted Carlton, Jim Ward, Danny Wallace, George Wallaby, Reg Birch, Betty Johnston, Jack Rogers, Billy Oscar, Banjo Woorunmarra and David Mowaljarlai; visits to Wandjina art site, Waringarri, Mowanjum, Emu Creek, Kununurra, Balgo, Halls Creek and Yiyilu; relationship to land, parallels with native Americans; land rights; alcohol abuse; station life; mythology (eagle hawk, Billaluna region, Wandjina); mining industry; ATSIC; Christianity; law and punishment; healing; smoking ceremony; music; Pigeon (Jandamarra); Mowaljarlais Body of Australia vision |
Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians Social life and customs Australia Kimberley (W.A.) |
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian Australia Kimberley (W.A.) |
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Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian Australia Kimberley (W.A.) |
Notes |
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
Subject |
Arden, Harvey.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Philosophy.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Religion.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Kimberley Region, Western Australia -- Social life and customs
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Religion
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Social life and customs
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.)
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Kimberley Region, Western Australia
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.)
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Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian -- Kimberley Region, Western Australia
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Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
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Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian.
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SUBJECT |
Great Sandy Desert (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000660
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Halls Creek Region (W.A.)
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Mowanjum (W.A.)
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Tanami Desert (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004005238
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Author |
Osborn, Mike.
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LC no. |
93021284 |
ISBN |
0060169168 (cloth) |
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0060925809 (paperback) |
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