Elders: Wisdom from Australia's Indigenous Leaders

ISBN-13: 9780521539241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 126 str.

Peter McConchie

Opis

This book chronicles the wisdom of Indigenous peoples and their traditional and contemporary ways of living. A series of chapters authored by tribal elders from various parts of Australia is supplemented by the author's visually stunning photography. The book's representative account of Aboriginal people's lives, culture and beliefs in book form will appeal to a broad general audience.

Recenzje

'With a wonderful book like this, one wishes that it could be a thousand pages long and that Elders from every nation and every clan within Australia and the Torres Strait Islands could be listened to and their knowledge made available to all. To the Elders not included, an apology is made. Within this book there are seventeen Elders who speak for their country. In doing so they speak about a universal knowledge that connects us and belongs to us all. These pages contain the true voice of the land and the sea.' Lowitja O'Donoghue

Spis treści

1. Healing; 2. The land; 3. Hunting; 4. Gathering; 5. Family; 6. Lore/law; 7. Spirit; 8. The sea; 9. Ceremony and song.