Singing Saltwater Country - Journey to the Songlines of Carpentaria

Informationen zum Autor John Bradley is an anthropologist and deputy director of the Center for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University. He has worked for 30 years with the Yanyuwa community of Arnhem Land. Klappentext John Bradley's compelling account of three decades living with the Yanyuwa people of the Gulf of Carpentaria and of how the elders revealed to him the ancient songlines of their Dreaming. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 That meat - he's got a song..2 You have to learn him! you belong to Mambaliya ..3 Not like the bread of white men..4 Knowing what Old People knew..5 Chasing after the Dingo ..6 Tangled Up in the Law..7 Broken Songs..8 It makes the country tremble..9 Putting it down

Product details

• Authors: John Bradley, John/ Yanyuwa Families Bradley, Yanyuwa Families
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9781742372419
• ISBN: 978-1-74237-241-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Australische und Pazifische Geschichte, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions