Singing Saltwater Country

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Title Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Map of Yanyuwa Country -- How This Book Came To Be -- Notes About The Text -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 -- 'That meat-he's got a song' -- Chapter 2 -- 'You have to learn him, you belong to Mambaliya' -- Chapter 3 -- 'Not like the bread of white men' -- Chapter 4 -- Knowing what old people knew -- Chapter 5 -- Chasing after the Dingo -- Chapter 6 -- Tangled up in the Law -- Chapter 7 -- Broken songs -- Chapter 8 -- 'It makes the country tremble' -- Chapter 9 -- Putting it down -- Afterword. Title Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Map of Yanyuwa Country -- How This Book Came To Be -- Notes About The Text -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 -- 'That meat-he's got a song' -- Chapter 2 -- 'You have to learn him, you belong to Mambaliya' -- Chapter 3 -- 'Not like the bread of white men' -- Chapter 4 -- Knowing what old people knew -- Chapter 5 -- Chasing after the Dingo -- Chapter 6 -- Tangled up in the Law -- Chapter 7 -- Broken songs -- Chapter 8 -- 'It makes the country tremble' -- Chapter 9 -- Putting it down -- Afterword. Appendix: A Sample of a Full-length Kujika -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index -- About The Author.