ISBN:
9781875559718
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 688 p)
,
ill, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin : A World That Is, Was, and Will Be
DDC:
305.89915
Keywords:
Aboriginal Australians
;
Narrinyeri (Australian people) Social life and customs
Abstract:
The voices of women and men who struggled to protect sacred sites in the Hindmarsh Island, Murray Mouth and Goolwa area. When they did, it became the subject of a series of court cases, legal decisions, media speculation and parliamentary conflict, ending in 2001 with a vindication of their words
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Maps; Dedication; Prologue: Being Here; Part One: Ngarrindjeri A Distinctive Weave; 1 Weaving the World of Ngarrindjeri; Weaving Women; Sustaining Stories; The Respect System; Making Baskets: Making Family; Feather Flowers: The Land of Pelicans; Weaving the Past; Weaving New Worlds; 2 Shared Designs, Different Strands; Ngurunderi: Landscape and Culture, United and Divided; Life on the Mission: From Taplin's Time On; Religion: On and Off the Mission; Life on Farms and in Fringe Camps: Learning by Word of Mouth
Description / Table of Contents:
Life in the Home: Being Taken AwayNgarrindjeri of High Literary Degree; Wururi: Many Dialects, One Body; The Circle of Language; 3 Singing: "Pakari Nganawi Ruwi" (Prayer song for my country); Pinkie Mack: Singing of Welcome and War; Many Meanings: Few Recordings; Songs of the Southeast; Songs and Ceremonies of Yore; Gospel, Glee Clubs and Guitars; Pakari Songs: Twentieth-Century Dreaming; 4 Family, Friends and Other Relations; Ngatji: "Friend, Countryman, Protector"; Ngatji: Accommodating Change; Ngatji Stories: Krowali, Krayi and Others; Miwi: Feeling and Knowing
Description / Table of Contents:
Ngia-ngiampe: Birth RelationsThe Power of Naming; Genealogies: Families First; Whose Genealogy?; Family Connections: Something Old, Something New; 5 A Land Alive: Embodying and Knowing the Country; A Living, Changing Land; Ruwi and Ruwar: Land and Body; A Gendered, Embodied Land; A Restricted Body: Narambi-Dangerous and Forbidden; Burials: Ensuring a Safe Place, Coming Home; Changing Practice: Persistent Values; 6 Signs and Sorcery: Finding Meaning in a Changing World; Reading the Signs; The Mingka Bird; The Return of the Whales; Signs from the Past and Present; Powerful Presences
Description / Table of Contents:
Putari PracticeThe Mulyewongk: A Story for All Ages; Fear of Foreigners, Small People, the Dark; Part Two: The Politics of Knowledge; 7 Respecting the Rules: Oral and Written Cultures; Whose Knowledge? Whose Rules?; A Two-Way Dialogue; Side-bar Dialogues; Respecting the Rules; With Respect to Gender; Taking Time and Talking in Riddles; The Trouble with Books; Staying Silent: Speaking Out; A Community of Belief and a Culture of Dissent; 8 Sorting the Sources: Writing about the Lower Murray; Who has Fabricated the Ngarrindjeri?; First Sightings: Writing the Ngarrindjeri into existence
Description / Table of Contents:
A Dying Race: Recording Nineteenth Century Ngarrindjeri1840s: Surgeon, missionary, artist; The 1850s-1870s: Records of a dying race; Century's End: Learned Gentlemen and Armchair Anthropology; Museums and Memory Culture: Tindale, Berndt et al.; The Tindale Collection; The Berndt Book; Recording the Word: From passive to active voice; On Silences, Assumptions and Censorship; On Women, Feminists and Ethnography; A tradition of feminist anthropologists; How might a feminist ethnography of the Lower Murray be constructed?; Of Courts, Consultants and Armchairs
Description / Table of Contents:
Finding Meaning in a Changing World: A constant
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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