Title Dreamkeepers : a spirit-journey into Aboriginal Australia / Harvey Arden ; photographs by Harvey Arden and Mike Osborn

Edition First edition Published New York : Harper Collins Publishers, 1994

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	299.92 Ard/Das		AVAILABLE

Description xii, 219 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm Summary Popular account of authors encounters with Aboriginal people and culture in the Kimberley and Great Sandy Desert; definition of Dreamtime, contemporary political background; based on conversations with Daisy Utemorrah, Ted Carlton, Jim Ward, Danny Wallace, George Wallaby, Reg Birch, Betty Johnston, Jack Rogers, Billy Oscar, Banjo Woorunmarra and David Mowaljarlai; visits to Wandjina art site, Waringarri, Mowanjum, Emu Creek, Kununurra, Balgo, Halls Creek and Yiyilu; relationship to land, parallels with native Americans; land rights; alcohol abuse; station life; mythology (eagle hawk, Billaluna region, Wandjina); mining industry; ATSIC; Christianity; law and punishment; healing; smoking ceremony; music; Pigeon (Jandamarra); Mowaljarlais Body of Australia vision Analysis Aboriginal Australians Social life and customs Australia Kimberley (W.A.) Mythology, Aboriginal Australian Australia Kimberley (W.A.) Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian Australia Kimberley (W.A.) Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection Subject Arden, Harvey. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Philosophy. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Religion. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Social life and customs. Aboriginal Australians -- Kimberley Region, Western Australia -- Social life and customs Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Religion Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley -- Social life and customs Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Western Australia -- Kimberley Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Kimberley Region, Western Australia Mythology, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Kimberley (W.A.) Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian -- Kimberley Region, Western Australia Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Kimberley Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian. SUBJECT Great Sandy Desert (W.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000660 Halls Creek Region (W.A.) Mowanjum (W.A.) Tanami Desert (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004005238 Author Osborn, Mike. LC no. 93021284 ISBN 0060169168 (cloth) 0060925809 (paperback)

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