Dreamkeepers : a spirit-journey into Aboriginal Australia / Harvey Arden ; photographs by Harvey Arden and Mike Osborn.
Material type: TextCopyright date: 1994Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 219 p., [17] p. of plates ; ill., 1 map, ports. ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0060169168
- 0060925809
- 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)
- 299/.92 20
- 299.92 20
- GN667.W5 A73 1994
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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.
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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