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Warlpiri Women's Voices: Our Lives Our History (Oral history series)

By Georgina Napangardi , Janet Nakamarra Long

Book information

Publisher
Iad Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0949659754, 9780949659750
Open Library ID
OL8475360M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33895715 bytes)
Pages
133\133
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Языки и языкознание;Австралийские языки

Description

Warlpiri women have a strength and resilience that comes from lives lived on the land. Their knowledge of country is handed down from generation to generation through story, ceremony, song and dance - women's business. This relationship to country has supported them through the hardship of desert life, the trauma of early European contact and the rapid changes of recent times. In Warlpiri Women's Voices Aboriginal women tell the stories of their lives and history on the Lander River in Central Australia. They speak of growing up in the days before Europeans arrived in their country; of learning about social relationships and religious ceremony; of hunting and gathering with the older women. Then come stories about their early encounters with Europeans and the changes that followed.

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