Dreamkeepers : a spirit-journey into Aboriginal Australia / Harvey Arden ; photographs by Harvey Arden and Mike Osborn
- Bib ID:
- 1696771
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Arden, Harvey
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : HarperCollins, c1994
- xii, 219 p., [17] p. of plates ; ill., 1 map, ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0060169168 (cloth)
- 0060925809 (paperback)
- Summary:
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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.
- Notes:
- Cultural Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this book may contain images or names of people who have since passed away.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Religion
- Philosophy, Australian aboriginal -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Ceremonies - Smoking ceremonies
- Stories and motifs - Eagles / hawks / crows
- Substance use - Alcohol - Availability, dry areas etc
- Land rights - Mining industry
- Music
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Art - Crafts - Advertising and marketing
- Art - Sand and ground design
- Art - Subjects - Wandjina
- Halls Creek (WA East Kimberley SE52-10)
- Billiluna (Central WA Tanami Desert SE52-14)
- Kununurra (WA East Kimberley SD52-14)
- Mowanjum (WA West Kimberley SE51-07)
- Balgo / Wirrimanu (Central WA Tanami Desert SF52-02)
- Great Sandy Desert (WA SE51, SF51)
- Billiluna / Kururrungku (Central WA Tanami Desert SE52-14)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Osborn, Mike
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1994
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