From the Publisher: This enthralling new history of Aboriginal writing challenges conventional beliefs about how and when Indigenous authorship began. Within a short time of settlement, written texts were being exchanged as curiosities, and integrated into Indigenous graphic tra…
From the Publisher: This enthralling new history of Aboriginal writing challenges conventional beliefs about how and when Indigenous authorship began. Within a short time of settlement, written texts were being exchanged as curiosities, and integrated into Indigenous graphic tra…
Related the history of Australia's indigenous inhabitants from their arrival on the continent to the centuries-long European colonization process, which established their role in today's Australia. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, and extensive bibliogra…
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of c…
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of c…
"The time for new approaches to White’s work is overdue. Central to the present study are Edward Said’s ideas about the role of the intellectual (and the writer) – of speaking “truth to power,” and also the importance of tracing the “affiliations” of a text and its embeddedness …
"A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert. The outcome of fieldwork conducted in the area in the 1980s and 1990s, it was originally published in French as Les…