ISBN:
1760633216
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9781760633219
Language:
Australian languages
Pages:
XXIX, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
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illustrations and portraits (some colour)
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24 cm
DDC:
305.89915
Keywords:
Women, Aboriginal Australian
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Aboriginal Australians Music
;
Music
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Women, Aboriginal Australian
;
Songs, Aboriginal Australian
;
Aboriginal Australians Rites and ceremonies
;
Women, Aboriginal Australian Rites and ceremonies
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Aboriginal Australians Music
;
Yolngu (Australian people) Social life and customs
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Yolngu (Australian people) Songs and music
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Yolngu people (NT SD53)
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Dhangu-Djangu Yolngu Matha language N230
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Women, Aboriginal Australian ; Rites and ceremonies
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Women, Aboriginal Australian
;
Songs, Aboriginal Australian
;
Music
;
Aboriginal Australians ; Rites and ceremonies
;
Aboriginal Australians
;
Yolngu (Australian people)
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Yolngu (Australian people) ; Social life and customs
;
Music
;
Songs and music
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Arnhem Land (NT)
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Northern Territory ; Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australien
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Arnhemland Nordost
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Aborigines
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Indigene Frau
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Rituelles Singen
Abstract:
Wuymirri -- Wikun -- Guwak -- Wititj -- Goŋ-gurtha.
Abstract:
'We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey of songspirals. Songspirals are the essence of people in this land, the essence of every clan. We belong to the land and it belongs to us. We sing to the land, sing about the land. We are that land. It sings to us.' Aboriginal Australian cultures are the oldest living cultures on earth and at the heart of Aboriginal cultures is song. These ancient narratives of landscape have often been described as a means of navigating across vast distances without a map, but they are much, much more than this. Songspirals are sung by Aboriginal people to awaken Country, to make and remake the life-giving connections between people and place. Songspirals are radically different ways of understanding the relationship people can have with the landscape. For Yolngu people from North East Arnhem Land, women and men play different roles in bringing songlines to life, yet the vast majority of what has been published is about men's place in songlines. Songspirals is a rare opportunity for outsiders to experience Aboriginal women's role in crying the songlines in a very authentic and direct form
Note:
Gay'wu Group of Women is the 'dilly bag women's group', a deep collaboration between five Yolngu women and three non-Aboriginal women over a decade - all co-athors of two other books. The group is made up of Laklak Burarrwanga, Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Item in English and Yolngu
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