Fighters and Singers: The Lives of Some Australian Aboriginal Women

ISBN-13: 9780367718084 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str.

Isobel White; Diane Barwick; Betty Meehan

Opis

The literature on Australian Aborigines is vast, but much of it is strangely silent about the experiences and activities of women. This collection of stories of the eventful lives and strong characters of a number of Aboriginal women offers a more intimate and personal view.

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Contributors

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Preface

'Two Dreamtimes' - Judith Wright

1 Topsy Napurrula Nelson: Teacher, Philosopher and Friend - Diane Bell

2 Mondalmi: One of the Saltwater People - Catherine Berndt

3 A Teacher's Life - Pearl Duncan

4 Utopian Women - Jenny Green

5 Eileen McKenzie - Luise Hercus

6 I Was a Drover Once Myself: Amy Laurie of Kununurra - Amy Laurie and Ann McGrath

7 Lorna Dixon - Janet Mathews

8 Emily Margaret Horneville of the Muruwari - Lynette Oates

9 Inyalangka - Helen Payne

WC 10 My Sister Who Mothered Me - Janice Reid

11 Running Free: Three Kugu-Nganychara Women - Diane Smith

12 Two Women of Jigalong - Myrna Tonkinson

13 Aunty Ellen: The Pastor's Wife - Diane Barwick

14 Bandeiyama: She Keep Going - Betty Meehan

15 Mangkatina: Woman of the Desert - Isobel White

O autorze

ISOBEL WHITE is an anthropologist who has lived with Aboriginal people in South Australia while studying women's social and ceremonial life. Since her retirement from Monash University she has been a visiting fellow in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. DIANE BARWICK is an anthropologist who has done years of research on the history of Aboriginal administration in Victoria and New South Wales, described in many articles and the forthcoming book Rebellion at Coranderrk. BETTY MEEHAN is an anthropologist who has lived at intervals over the last twenty years with the Anbarra community in Arnhem Land. Her book Shell bed to shell midden describes some of her experiences with the women of that community. The other contributors to Fighters and Singers represent a group of writers who combine a distinguished list of publications with deep first-hand knowledge of the Aboriginal way of life.