Aboriginal reconciliation and the Dreaming : Warramiri Yolngu and the quest for equality / Ian S. McIntosh
- Bib ID:
- 1713219
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McIntosh, Ian
- Description:
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- Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c2000
- xii, 148 p : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0205297935 (paperback)
- Series:
- Cultural Survival studies in ethnicity and change.
- Summary:
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Discusses the Warramiri stories on relationships with the Macassans and views on reconciliation, given their long history of contact; based on the stories of and conversations with David Burrumarra, Warramiri clan Elder; the Dreaming forms the basis of Warramiri reconciliation endeavours; describes Burrumarra's "membership and remembership" argument for reconciliation; Warramiri have been pursuing reconciliation for the past forty years; discusses the Birrinydji narrative.
- Notes:
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- Maps on endpapers.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-144) and index.
- Subject:
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- Yolngu (Australian people) -- Religion
- Yolngu (Australian people) -- Government relations
- Yolngu (Australian people) -- Social conditions
- Mythology, Aboriginal Australian
- Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology)
- Mining industry
- Race relations - Reconciliation
- Religions - Christianity
- Yolngu people (NT SD53)
- Warramirri / Warramiri people (N131) (NT SD53-03)
- Indigenous knowledge - World view
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Stories and motifs - Mythological beings
- Environment - Resource management
- Ceremonies
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Dholtji / Cape Wilberforce (East Arnhem Land SC53-16)
- Galiwinku (Elcho Island East Arnhem Land NT SD53-03)
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2000
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