| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Cover; Praise for Talking Sideways; Author Biographies; Title Page; Imprint Page; Contents; Map; Prologue: On Talking Sideways; Chapter 1: An Arabunna Family Story; Chapter 2: The Love of a Difficult Place; Chapter 3: Growing Up Two Ways; Chapter 4: Time Travelling; Chapter 5: The Mission, the Saddle and the Bottle; Chapter 6: Trouble; Chapter 7: The Blow-up and the Aftermath; Chapter 8: Mixed Blessings; Chapter 9: Staying Close to the Ground; Chapter 10: Unlikely Alliances; Chapter 11: Imagining the Future; Chapter 12: Creation Stories, Personal Stories; Chapter 13: Sharing a Song |
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Authors' NotesTimeline; Endnotes; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
Reg Dodd grew up at Finniss Springs, on striking desert country bordering South Australia's Lake Eyre. For the Arabunna and for many other Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has been a homeland and a refuge. It has also been a cattle station, an Aboriginal mission, a battlefield, a place of learning, and a living museum. With his long-time friend and filmmaker Malcolm McKinnon, Dodd reflects on his upbringing in a cross-cultural environment that defied social conventions of the time. They also write candidly about the tensions surrounding power, authority, and Indigenous knowledge that have defined the recent decades of this resource-rich area. Talking Sideways is part history, part memoir, and part cultural road-map. Together, Dodd and McKinnon reveal the unique history of this extraordinary place and share their concerns and their hopes for its future |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 1, 2019) |
| Subject |
Dodd, Reg
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Arabana (Australian people) -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
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Arabana (Australian people)
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Manners and customs
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Finniss Springs (S.A.) -- Biography
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Finniss Springs (S.A.) -- Social life and customs
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McKinnon, Malcolm, author
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| ISBN |
9780702262104 |
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0702262102 |
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