Ngarrindjeri wurruwarrin : a world that is, was, and will be /
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| Author / Creator: | Bell, Diane, 1943-, author. |
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| Edition: | New edition. |
| Imprint: | North Melbourne, Vic. Spinifex Press, 2014. 2014. |
| Description: | xlviii, 694 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10126436 |
| Summary: | In Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin, Diane Bell invites her readers into the complex and contested world of the cultural beliefs and practices of the Ngarrindjeri of South Australia; teases out the meanings and misreadings of the written sources; traces changes and continuities in oral accounts; challenges assumptions about what Ngarrindjeri women know, how they know it, and how outsiders may know what is to be known. Wurruwarrin: knowing and believing. In 1995, a South Australian Royal Commission found Ngarrindjeri women to have â fabricatedâ their beliefs to stop the building of a bridge from Goolwa to Hindmarsh Island. By 2001, in federal court, the women were vindicated as truth-tellers. In 2009, the site was registered, but scars remain of that shameful moment.In the Preface to the New Edition, Diane Bell looks to the world that â will beâ , where talented, committed Ngarrindjeri leaders are building the infrastructure for future generations of the Ngarrindjeri nation and challenging the very foundation of the State of South Australia. |
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| Item Description: | Previous edition: 1998. |
| Physical Description: | xlviii, 694 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781742199184 1742199186 |
