Cover illustrations painted on silk
by Aboriginal artist
Muriel Van Der Byl.
Title design by Kim Roberts.
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NGARRINDJERI WURRUWARRIN:
A WORLD THAT IS, WAS, AND WILL BE
FOUR AWARDS
Winner of the 1999 Gleebooks Prize for the
NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the Age book of the Year Award 1999
Shortlisted for Best History Book in Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 1999
Shortlisted for ALS 2000 Gold Medal
DIANE BELL
On accepting the prize Professor Bell said, " We are enriched as a nation by the stories of the Ngarrindjeri... they enable us to imagine ourselves more richly as a nation... to see where we are and who we might be... we ignore their stories at our peril." |
This book not only fills a void in the anthropological literature, it demands that we think again about our commitment to justice for Australia's original inhabitants and the bases of our knowledge of Aboriginal societies.
In the 1980s Diane Bell's Daughters of the Dreaming brought the richness of Central Australian Aboriginal women's lives into sharp focus: women had sacred sights, songs and rituals. Women were to be included in land claims and law reform.
In Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin Diane Bell presents a finely textured ethnographic portrait of a very different Aboriginal culture. Or is it? Weaving texts written with voices of women and men whose struggle to protect their sacred sights in the Hindmarsh Island, Murray Mouth Goolwa area became the subject of a South Australian Royal Commission, two Federal Heritage applications, media speculation, anthropological disputation, and dramatic parliamentary strategising,
Diane Bell takes us into a world that has been invisble to many 'experts'. She ponders the distinctive dynamic nature of Ngarrindjeri culture; the ways in which we think about social change; the politics of knowledge; and the centrality of religion for people whose lives have been profoundly affected by two centuries of colonialisation of their lands.
Author of Daughters of the Dreaming
Author of Generations Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters
Editor of Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed |
Diane Bell
Photograph by Pat Hannagan.
Mural by Heather Shearer
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Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin was released in Australia in August 98, in NZ in September 98 and in the UK and USA in 1999.
| This publication is assisted by the Australia Council, the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body |
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Cover illustrations painted
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