Daughters of The Dreaming

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Diane Bell shines a light on the importance of women's role in Australian Aboriginal desert culture. As maintainers of land, ritual and culture, Indigenous women of central Australia share the patterns of their lives in this remarkable and enduring book. BOOK COVER TITLE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION CONTENTS LIST OF MAPS AND DIAGRAMS FOREWORD TO THE THIRD EDITION FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION Chapter I INTO THE FIELD NOTES Chapter II CHANGE AND CONTINUITY RECLAIMING THE PAST FRAGMENTS FROM THE FRONTIER THE PRESENT: WARRABRI THE JUKURRPA BOSSES NOT PRISONERS NOTES Chapter III THE SUSTAINING IDEALS: LAND, LOVE AND WELL-BEING THE KAYTEJ JILIMI AND ‘RING PLACE' YAWULYU AND LAND HEALTH LOVE NOTES Chapter IV WE FOLLOW ONE LAW ‘SOMETIMES WE DANCE TOGETHER’ MAKING YOUNG MEN NOTES Chapter V THE PROBLEM OF WOMEN NOTES APPENDIX 1 THE WARLPIRI ORTHOGRAPHY THE ARRERNTE AND KAYTEJ ORTHOGRAPHIES Arrernte (Eastern Aranda) Kaytej APPENDIX 2 KINSHIP THE SUBSECTION SYSTEM COUNTRY RELATIONS MARRIAGE RITUAL RECIPROCITY NOTES EPELOGUE GENDER-NEUTRAL: GENDER-INFLECTED ENGAGED IS TO DETACHED AS ADVOCACY IS TO SCIENCE UNIVERSALIZING ETHNOGRAPHY VERSUS A WOMAN’S PARTICULARIZED WORLD CULTURAL RELATIVISM, HUMAN RIGHTS AND ETHICS BEING HERE: BEING THERE FEMINIST FUTURES NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY A NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY GLOSSARY INDEX