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"...those confused by Hindmarsh, or just fascinated by the power plays of knowledge control should read this book. It makes the royal commission report look like... well, a fabrication"

Debra Jopson
Senior Journalist
Sydney Morning Herald




"Professor Diane Bell, the latest defender of "women's business" and its fabricators, is almost as brazen as her informants... Bell's version of feminist anthropology is like "Creationist Science".

Christopher Pearson
The Australian Financial Review
Monday, August 17, 1998




"Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin falls into the category of books which are likely to be valuable to almost all sectors of the reading public, and at the same time, to be criticised by almost all sectors of the reading public."

Deborah Bird Rose
Indigenous Law Bulletin
Dec. 98 - Jan. 99




"[A] formidable collection...It leaves the reader wondering whether the outcome would have been different had the contents of the book been known at the time of the events it describes."

John Toohey, former High Court Judge and
former Aboriginal Land Commissioner
Canberra Times




"[A] compelling account that demands to be read... a meticulous piece of scholarship but very readable and accessible."

Prof. Fay Gale, President
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

• It is about big issues like the quality of justice enjoyed by Indigenous peoples and what sort of society we want to be.
• It is about the particulars of Hindmarsh Island and the writing of ethnography in the southeast.
• It is about anthropologists and anthropology.
• It is about the politics of knowledge in an oral culture and those of a print-oriented one.
• It is about women who insist on being authors of their own lives.
• And it is about belief, dissent, story-telling and story tellers.

  Diane Bell's controversial book, Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World that is, was, and will be, was launched in Adelaide on August 27, 1998 and at the Writers Festival in Melbourne on August 29, 1998.

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