| Description |
xvi, 412 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 26 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Introduction -- Earth Dreaming -- Part One - In The Beginning Was The Dreaming -- Chapter 1. Images of Our Origins -- Chapter 2. Time and Space in the Dreaming -- Chapter 3. Dreaming and Creation -- Chapter 4. Colonization and the Destruction of the Dreaming -- Chapter 5. Revelation, Paradise, and Fall: The Myth of the Golden Age -- Chapter 6. Earth Dying, Earth Reborn -- Chapter 7. In The Womb of the Rainbow Serpent -- Chapter 8. Seed Dreaming -- Part Two - Living The Dreaming -- Chapter 9. Coming Into Being -- Chapter 10. The Cycles of Initiation -- Chapter 11. Aboriginal Sexuality -- Chapter 12. Dreamtime and the Sense of Being -- Chapter 13. The Aboriginal Kinship System -- Chapter 14. Dream, Earth, and Identity -- Part Three - Totemism and Animism -- Chapter 15. Totem and Society -- Chapter 16. Totem and Image -- Chapter 17. Hunter-Gatherers and Totemism -- Chapter 18. Totem and Mind -- Chapter 19. Totem and Animism -- Part Four - Death and the Initiations of High Degree -- Introduction -- Chapter 20. Death - Expanding into the Dreaming -- Chapter 21. Death - The Prepared Journey -- Chapter 22. Wise Women and Men of High Degree -- Chapter 23. Preserving the Seed -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
General account of pre-colonial Aboriginal culture; New Age perspectives |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians Philosophy |
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Aboriginal Australians Social life and customs |
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian |
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Aboriginal Australians - Philosophy |
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Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs |
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-401) and index |
| Notes |
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Legends.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Philosophy.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Religion.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Legends.
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Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology)
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian.
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Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian.
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| Genre/Form |
Legends.
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| Author |
Bernard Hames Collection
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| LC no. |
91026253 |
| ISBN |
0892813555 |
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