This original ethnography brings indigenous people's stories into conversations around troubling questions of social justice and environmental care. Deborah Bird Rose lived for two years with the Yarralin community in the Northern Territory's remote Victoria River Valley. Her engagement with the people's stories and their action in the world leads her to this analysis of a multi-centred poetics of life and land. The book speaks to issues that are of immediate and broad concern today: traditional ecological knowledge, ...
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This original ethnography brings indigenous people's stories into conversations around troubling questions of social justice and environmental care. Deborah Bird Rose lived for two years with the Yarralin community in the Northern Territory's remote Victoria River Valley. Her engagement with the people's stories and their action in the world leads her to this analysis of a multi-centred poetics of life and land. The book speaks to issues that are of immediate and broad concern today: traditional ecological knowledge, kinship between humans and other living things, colonising history, environmental history, and sacred geography. Now in paperback, this award-winning exploration of the Yarralin people is available to a whole new readership. The boldly direct and personal approach will be illuminating and accessible to general readers, while also of great value to experienced anthropologists.
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Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 261 p. Contains: Halftones, Line drawings, Maps. Audience: General/trade. Association copy; inscribed by author; 1st printing. Near Fine hardcover in Good+ DJ. Bright, clean covers and spine; very slight rubbing wear at corners; tightly bound; author name 'Goodale 94' in small letters on front free end paper; inscribed on half title 'For Jane, | with love and | gratitude, | Debbie'; bright, clean interior. DJ is clean and complete with light edge wear; 1/4 inch closed tear at spine head and another at rear cover tail edge; 1/2 inch closed tear at rear cover fore edge. 8vo, 249 pp; index, biblio; illustrated. See, OCLC #253942842. Inscription was to Anthropology Professor and author, Jane C. Goodale (Bryn Mawr, U. Penn, Barnard). Laid in is an autograph signed personal letter from author to professor Goodale on Australian National University letterhead.
