ISBN:
9781876756222
,
1876756225
,
9781742192109
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 324 p)
,
22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines
DDC:
305.89/915
Keywords:
Aboriginal Australians Psychology
;
Wounds and injuries Psychological aspects
;
Violence Psychological aspects
;
Spiritual healing
;
Aboriginal Australians Social conditions
;
Aboriginal Australians Crimes against
;
Aboriginal Australians - Crimes against
;
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Abstract:
Taking readers into the depths of sadness and despair and into the heights of celebration and hope, this disturbing account details the trauma suffered by Australia's indigenous people and the resultant "trauma trails" spread throughout the country
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Definitions; Prologue Great-grandmother' s Gift; Chapter One: Dadirri: Listening to one another; A research purpose, topic and focus; What is violence?; Justification for the research; A culturally safe research approach; Dadirri: Listening to one another; Chapter Two: Song Lines and Trauma Trails; Cultures in collision; Aboriginal worldviews; Relationships and land; Ceremony and ritual as articulation of relationship; Relationships between people; Lore and law; Aggression (or assertion) as instrumentality
Description / Table of Contents:
What does violence do to human societies?The disastrous consequences of war and colonisation; Physical violence: invasion, disease, death and destruction; Structural violence: enforced dependency, legislation, reserves and removals; Psycho-social dominance: cultural and spiritual genocide; The anthropology of violence; Victimisation, loss and grief; Violence experienced as traumatisation; Trauma expressed as violence; Transgenerational aspects of trauma; Trauma trails: fractured identities, families, communities; Summary; Chapter Three: We Al-li: A program of healing
Description / Table of Contents:
We Al-li: fire and water, anger and griefStories of pain and stories of healing; " What do you remember most about your childhood?"; " What was it like for you growing up as a young man or young woman?"; " Have you ever hurt yourself?"; " Have you ever experienced any form of violence as an adult?"; " Have you ever behaved violently towards another person or thing?"; " Were the police ever involved in any of this?"; " Tell me more about the alcohol and drugs you used."; " What was/is being in a family like for you?"; " Can you talk about feelings?"
Description / Table of Contents:
" Can you talk about healing, what does it mean?"Summary; Chapter Four: The Way of the Human Being I: The trauma story; Trauma experiences, thoughts, feelings and behaviours; Self as inadequate consequent to child harm/trauma; Victim/perpetrator/survivor roles in family and community violence; Alcohol and other drug misuse: a self-medicating response to trauma; Suicidal and other self-harming behaviour; The search for identity: fragmentation and separation; Transgenerational transmission of trauma; Summary; Chapter Five: The Way of the Human Being II: The healing story
Description / Table of Contents:
Healing as an awakeningHealing as an experience of safety; Healing as community support; Rebuilding a sense of family and community in healing; Healing as ever-deepening self-knowledge; The use of ceremony in healing; Cultural and spiritual identity in healing; Healing as transformation and transcendence; Integration in healing; Summary; Chapter Six: To Unite Hearts and Establish Order; Cultural tools which assist healing: a model for community action; Acts of violence and experiences of trauma; Violence, trauma, and child development; Violence, trauma, and family and community fragmentation
Description / Table of Contents:
Violence, trauma, and alcohol and other drug abuse
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-308) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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