Joe Nangan's Dreaming
Title | Joe Nangan's Dreaming PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Nangan |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Publishers |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Legends of a Nygina songman.
The Speaking Land
Title | The Speaking Land PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald M. Berndt |
Publisher | Inner Traditions / Bear & Co |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1994-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780892815180 |
This is the first anthology of Aboriginal myth, collected by anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt during fifty years of work among the Aboriginal peoples.
Entangled Subjects
Title | Entangled Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Michèle Grossman |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9401209138 |
Indigenous Australian cultures were long known to the world mainly from the writing of anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, missionaries, and others. Indigenous Australians themselves have worked across a range of genres to challenge and reconfigure this textual legacy, so that they are now strongly represented through their own life-narratives of identity, history, politics, and culture. Even as Indigenous-authored texts have opened up new horizons of engagement with Aboriginal knowledge and representation, however, the textual politics of some of these narratives – particularly when cross-culturally produced or edited – can remain haunted by colonially grounded assumptions about orality and literacy. Through an examination of key moments in the theorizing of orality and literacy and key texts in cross-culturally produced Indigenous life-writing, Entangled Subjects explores how some of these works can sustain, rather than trouble, the frontier zone established by modernity in relation to ‘talk’ and ‘text’. Yet contemporary Indigenous vernaculars offer radical new approaches to how we might move beyond the orality–literacy ‘frontier’, and how modernity and the a-modern are Productively entangled in the process.
A Track to Unknown Water
Title | A Track to Unknown Water PDF eBook |
Author | Stella Lees |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780810820067 |
Centers on the particular contribution minority groups make to children's literature.
Dreaming Ecology
Title | Dreaming Ecology PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Bird Rose |
Publisher | ANU Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2024-05-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 176046628X |
In the author’s own words, Dreaming Ecology ‘explores a holistic understanding of the interconnections of people, country, kinship, creation and the living world within a context of mobility. Implicitly it asks how people lived so sustainably for so long’. It offers a telling critique of the loss of Indigenous life, human and non-human, in the wake of white settler colonialism and this becoming ‘cattle country’. It offers a fresh perspective on nomadics grounded in ‘footwalk epistemology’ and ‘an ethics of return sustained across different species, events, practices and scales’. ‘This is the final and most substantial of Debbie’s love letters to the Aboriginal people of the Victoria River Downs. I say this because there is such a sense of reverence, wonder and respect throughout the book. The introduction of concepts of double-death, footwalk epistemology, wild country … are not only organising ideas but characterisations arising from what Debbie hears, sees and feels of herself and Aboriginal others … I think of it in terms of love, if love is care, reciprocal respect, deep connectivity and a strong desire to never make less of the people she chose to commit herself to.’ —Richard Davis ‘This book was a pleasure to read, filled with careful description of people, places, and various plants and animals, and insightful analysis of the patterns and commitments that hold them together in the world.’ —Thom van Dooren
The Children's Country
Title | The Children's Country PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Muecke |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2020-11-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1786615495 |
In North-West Australia, between 2009 and 2013, a major Indigenous-environmentalist alliance waged a successful campaign to stop a huge industrial development, a $45 billion liquefied gas plant proposed by Woodside and its partners. The Western Australian government and key Indigenous institutions also pushed hard for this, making the custodians of the Country, the Goolarabooloo, an embattled minority. This experimental ethnography documents the Goolarabooloo’s knowledge of Country, their long history of struggle for survival, and the alliances that formed to support them. Written in a fictocritical style, it introduces a new ‘multirealist’ kind of analysis that focuses on institutions (Indigenous or European), their spheres of influence, and how they organised to stay alive as alliances shifted and changed.
The Buccaneer's Bell
Title | The Buccaneer's Bell PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Edwards |
Publisher | Tangee Publishing |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 9780975793619 |