xvi, 238 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
Contents
1. People, Land and Spirit -- 2. Mediterranean, European and Aboriginal Spirit Worlds -- 3. Colonisation and Missionisation in the Kimberley -- 4. Maddy Jarra's World History -- 5. Following the Christian Way -- 6. Churchgoing -- 7. Conflicts with Missionaries -- 8. Mother Earth versus the Lure of Infinite Space
Summary
Examines Aboriginal people's experiences of colonialism and post- colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. This work analyzes how Aboriginal people have appropriated Biblical stories of land inheritance, expansion and loss in order to make sense of their own dispossession
Analysis
Djaru (Australian people)
Australian Aboriginal studies (Northern Territory)