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Title: Dingo makes us human : life and land in an Australian Aboriginal culture
Publisher: Oakleigh, Vic : Cambridge University Press
Date: 2000
Author/Creator: Rose, Deborah Bird
Description: This original ethnography brings indigenous people’s stories into conversations around troubling questions of social justice and environmental care. Deborah Bird Rose lived for two years with the Yarralin community in the Northern Territory’s remote Victoria River Valley. Her engagement with the people’s stories and their action in the world leads her to this analysis of a multi-centred poetics of life and land. The book speaks to issues that are of immediate and broad concern today: traditional ecological knowledge, kinship between humans and other living things, colonising history, environmental history, and sacred geography. Now in paperback, this award-winning exploration of the Yarralin people is available to a whole new readership. The boldly direct and personal approach will be illuminating and accessible to general readers, while also of great value to experienced anthropologists. This is 3rd reprint published in 2009.
Description: 1. Remembrance -- 2. Expectations -- 3. Earthborn law -- 4. Living and dead bodies -- 5. An emu is not a catfish -- 6. The gift of life -- 7. Dream country -- 8. To have and to hold -- 9. Freehold -- 10. Testing -- 11. Jacky Jacky -- 12. Life time -- 13. This earth.
Description: 249 page(s)
Description: 2nd ed.
Subject Keyword: Aboriginal Australians--Northern Territory--Yarralin--Social conditions
Subject Keyword: Aboriginal Australian--Northern Territory--Yarralin--Religion
Subject Keyword: Aboriginal Australians--Northern Territory--Yarralin--Land tenure
Resource Type: book
Organisation: Macquarie University. Centre for Research on Social Inclusion

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/88357
Identifier: ISBN:0521794846
Identifier: mq-rm-2009007521
Language: eng

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