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Author : Jennifer Isaacs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780725408848
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Australian Dreaming written by Jennifer Isaacs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Billy Griffiths
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743820380
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Deep Time Dreaming written by Billy Griffiths and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds may have pointed the way. But the first Australians were voyaging into the unknown. Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. It investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the twentieth century, and the uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia. It explores what it means to live in a place of great antiquity, with its complex questions of ownership and belonging. It is about a slow shift in national consciousness: the deep time dreaming that has changed the way many of us relate to this continent and its enduring, dynamic human history. John Mulvaney Book Award: Winner Ernest Scott Prize: Winner NSW Premier's Literary Awards: Winner - Book of the Year NSW Premier's Literary Awards: Winner - Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: Highly Commended Queensland Literary Awards: Shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Shortlisted Educational Publishing Awards: Shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards: Longlisted CHASS Book Prize: Longlisted ‘What a revelatory work! If you wish to hear the voice of our continent's history before the written word, Deep Time Dreaming is a must read. The freshest, most important book about our past in years.’ —Tim Flannery ‘Once every generation a book comes along that marks the emergence of a powerful new literary voice and shifts our understanding of the nation’s past. Billy Griffiths’ Deep Time Dreaming is one such book. Deeply researched, creatively conceived and beautifully written, it charts the expansion of archaeological knowledge in Australia for the first time. No other book has managed to convey the mystery and intricacy of Indigenous antiquity in quite the same way. Read it: it will change the way you see Australian history.’ —Mark McKenna, historian ‘Billy Griffiths’ Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia is a remarkable book, and one destined, I believe, to become a modern classic of Australian history writing. Written in vivid, evocative prose, this book will grip both the expert and the general reader alike.’ —Iain McCalman, author of The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change
Author : Pauline E. McLeod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031300983X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Gadi Mirrabooka written by Pauline E. McLeod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey into the fascinating world of Australia's Aboriginal culture with this unique collection of 33 authentic, unaltered stories brought to you by three Aboriginal storyteller custodians! Unlike other compilations of tales that were modified and published without permission from the Aboriginal people, these stories are now presented with approval from Aboriginal elders in an effort to help foster a better understanding of the history and culture of the Aboriginal people. Gadi Mirrabooka, which means below the Southern Cross, introduces wonderful tales from the Dreamtime, the mystical period of Aboriginal beginning. Through these stories you can learn about customs and values, animal psychology, hunting and gathering skills, cultural norms, moral behavior, the spiritual belief system, survival skills, and food resources. A distinctive and absolutely compelling story collection, this book is an immensely valuable treasure for educators, parents, children, and adult readers. Grades K-A
Author : Peta Stephenson
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 1742240186
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Islam Dreaming written by Peta Stephenson and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Malay pearl divers of Broome to the Afghan camel drivers of the interior, Muslims have lived and worked in Australia for more than three centuries. This comprehensive account reveals the life stories of the Muslim pioneers and their descendants as they formed bonds with the indigenous people of Australia. Interviews with more than 50 contemporary Indigenous Muslims convey the spiritual journeys and personal perspectives of this incredible population.
Author : James Cowan
Publisher : HarperThorsons
ISBN 13 : 9780007145461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Aborigine Dreaming written by James Cowan and published by HarperThorsons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the culture and religion of the Aborigines, explaining secret rites, ideas on reincarnation, stories, fables, and myths.
Author : Warren Brim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922142627
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (426 download)
Download or read book ABC Dreaming written by Warren Brim and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dingoes, bats, red-eyed green tree frogs ... an ABC of amazing Australian creatures At last ... a unique Australian ABC book. Featuring the artwork of celebrated Queensland artist Warren Brim, ABC Dreaming introduces young children to their alphabet and the beauty of Indigenous art in a bright and fun way. With well-thought out design and an array of amazing creatures that can be found in the rainforest, both parents and teachers will love this book when introducing young children to the letters of the alphabet. ABC Dreaming has been produced in consultation with Early Childhood specialists.
Author : James Cowan
Publisher : Prisma Press
ISBN 13 : 9781853270772
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Mysteries of the Dream-time written by James Cowan and published by Prisma Press. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Britain in 1989, this edition of a study of the spiritual beliefs and practises of Aborigines includes a new chapter, TSolitude and Community'. Contains a select bibliography and an index. The author, an Australian poet and novelist, has written numerous books on Aborigines, including TSacred Places' (1991) and TThe Elements of the Aborigine Tradition' (1992).
Author : Lynne Hume
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522863590
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Ancestral Power written by Lynne Hume and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dreaming, or the Dreamtime, is the English translation of a complex Aboriginal religious concept. It relates to the idea of an ancestral presence which exists as a spiritual power that is deeply present in the land. This presence or power also exists in certain paintings, in some dance performances, and in songs, blood and ceremonial objects. In Ancestral Power, Lynne Hume seeks to further our understanding of human consciousness by looking through a Western lens at the concept of the Dreaming. She examines the idea that Aboriginal people may have used certain techniques for entering altered states of consciousness. Could their experiences in such states, together with their extensive knowledge of their environment, have helped to create the cosmological scheme we call the Dreaming? With these questions in mind, she brings together and examines, for the first time, a wide range of existing literature on Aboriginal cosmology and spiritual practices, together with studies of Aboriginal art, data from anthropologists and ethnomusicologists, and statements by Aboriginal people from many different regional areas of Australia. Much of the information she highlights is little known. Ancestral Power suggests that Aboriginal spirituality is much more complex and compelling than the early missionaries could ever have imagined.
Author : Will Steffen
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 192166617X
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Himalayan Dreaming written by Will Steffen and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did climbers from the world's flattest, hottest continent become world-class Himalayan mountaineers, the equal of any elite mountaineer from countries with long climbing traditions and home ranges that make Australia's highest summit look like a suburban hill? This book tells the story of Australian mountaineering in the great ranges of Asia, from the exploits of a brash, young colonial with an early British Himalayan expedition in the 1920s to the coming of age of Australian climbers in the 1980s. The story goes beyond the two remarkable Australian ascents of Mt Everest in 1984 and 1988 to explore the exploits of Australian climbers in the far-flung corners of the high Himalaya. Above all, the book presents a glimpse into the lives - the successes, failures, tragedies, motivations, fears, conflicts, humor, and compassion - themselves to the ultimate limits of survival in the most spectacular and demanding mountain arena of all.
Author : Ray Norris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980657005
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Emu Dreaming written by Ray Norris and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art and traditions of Aboriginal Australia draw on 40,000 years experience of gazing into the richness of unpolluted skies from pristine lands. They include the "emu in the sky" constellation of dark clouds, and stories about the Sun, Moon, and the Seven Sisters. Several Aboriginal groups use the rising and setting of particular stars to show when to harvest a food source. Some explain how the tides are caused by the Moon, and even explain eclipses as a conjunction of the Sun and Moon. This book explores the mystical Aboriginal astronomical stories and traditions, and the way in which they are used for practical applications such as navigation and harvesting. It describes the journey of exploration that's currently opening Western eyes to this treasury of ancient Aboriginal knowledge, and is written by two active researchers in the field: Prof. Ray Norris (an astrophysicist with CSIRO, and an Adjunct Professor at the Dept. of Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University), and his wife Cilla. In this book, Ray and Cilla bring you the results of their 6-year quest to research Aboriginal Astronomy, including: * uncovering little-known manuscripts, * visiting Aboriginal sites throughout Australia, * writing down stories from ancient communities. Few outsiders understand the depth and complexity of Aboriginal cultures. This book will give you a glimpse that will change your ideas about Aboriginal society.
Author : Dr Dale Kerwin
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1836241445
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Aboriginal Dreaming Paths and Trading Routes written by Dr Dale Kerwin and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the contribution Aboriginal people made in assisting European explorers, surveyors and stockmen to open the country for colonisation, and explores the interface between Aboriginal possession of the Australian continent and European colonisation and appropriation.
Author : Jess Racklyeft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922081773
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Dreaming of Australia A-Z written by Jess Racklyeft and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age Range 3 to 6 A delightful Australian alphabet that travels the country highlighting the expected and unexpected.
Author : Brian P. Kennedy
Publisher : Scala Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dreaming Their Way written by Brian P. Kennedy and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only book in print surveying Australian Aboriginal women artists. Includes work by more than 30 contemporary artists.
Author : Jack Dann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781874082309
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Dreaming Down Under written by Jack Dann and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work collects short stories by many of the leading writers of fantasy and science fiction in Australia. It covers various areas of contemporary wild-side fiction including fantasy, horror, magical realism, cyberpunk and science fiction.
Author : Barbara Wood
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1596528907
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)
Download or read book The Dreaming written by Barbara Wood and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the untamed landscape of mid-nineteenth century Australia, The Dreaming is a rich and potent tale of hidden passion and broken taboo. Australia, 1871—Following her mother’s sudden death, Joanna Drury sets sail from India and arrives in Melbourne to claim the property left to her by her mother—and to trace the mysteries of her family’s past. From her first steps on shore, Joanna becomes entangled with a lost boy who leads her to the fascinating Hugh Westbrook. She agrees to look after the child in exchange for Hugh’s help in finding her inheritance. But she falls deeply in love with Hugh and with life at his sheep station, Merinda. When strange nightmares begin to plague her—the same that tormented her mother—Joanna starts to notice the Aborigines’ strange reaction to her. Delving into Australia’s past, she discovers the tragic events that have marked her family’s destiny and her own life, events that happened long ago in the time the Aborigines call “the Dreaming.” Full of intriguing historical detail, Wood’s compelling story brings the clash of immigrant and Aboriginal cultures to stunning life, capturing the danger, mystery, and romance of an emerging country.
Author : Robert Kenny
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1921640472
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)
Download or read book The Lamb Enters the Dreaming written by Robert Kenny and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lamb Enters the Dreaming traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people, who was born as the first pastoralists were driving cattle and sheep into Victoria’s Wimmera region. In their wake came Christian missionaries, who were just as hostile to the settlers’ violence as they were to the traditional beliefs of Aboriginal people. Nevertheless, Pepper converted to Christianity in 1860. The extraordinary story of Pepper’s conversion, and his subsequent attempts to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable, reveals much about the deeper symbolic and moral forces at work in this collision of cultures. Robert Kenny challenges many orthodoxies in this profound reconsideration of how indigenous people and Europeans thought about each other. He traces Aboriginal attempts to accommodate the ‘people of the sheep’ and their pastoralist totem, Jesus, while arguing that it was European animals more than the settlers themselves that ruptured the Dreaming. On the European side, Kenny argues, increasingly powerful scientific and philosophical challenges undermined evangelical Christianity’s belief that all humanity was of ‘One Blood’. And behind it all lurked the spectre of slavery and the question of the moral order of imperialism. Brilliantly original in conception, and written with a rare lucidity and lightness of touch, The Lamb Enters the Dreaming is a detailed and sensitive exploration of a life, a meditation on the matter of culture and conversion, and a major reappraisal of the relations between Aboriginal and European societies in the first decades of contact in southern Australia.
Author : Munya Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925884050
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Journey Into Dreamtime written by Munya Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that tells about the magical world of Aboriginal Dreamtime and sharing the world's oldest living culture.
