Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey Into Aboriginal Australia

ISBN-10: 0060925809
ISBN-13: 9780060925802
Series: Dreamkeepers
Category: Religion
Pages: 219
Language: English
Published: 1995
Publisher: Perennial
Author: Harvey Arden

Description

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.

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Dreamkeepers
- 2020-03-06
- 202 pages
- Paperback
- Valerie Pemmican
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- 2008-11-16
- 240 pages
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- 432 pages
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