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Ngarrindjeri wurruwarrin : a world that is, was, and will be

Diane Bell (Author), Janet Mackenzie (Editor)
In Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin, Diane Bell invites her readers into the complex and contested world of the cultural beliefs and practices of the Ngarrindjeri of South Australia; teases out the meanings and misreadings of the written sources; traces changes and continuities in oral accounts; challenges assumptions about what Ngarrindjeri women know, how they know it, and how outsiders may know what is to be known. Wurruwarrin: knowing and believing. In 1995, a South Australian Royal Commission found Ngarrindjeri women to have?fabricated" their beliefs to stop the building of a bridge from Gool

eBook, English, 2014
New edition
Spinifex, North Melbourne, Australia, 2014