Elders: Wisdom from Australia's Indigenous LeadersPeter McConchie This is an important book, whose content is unlike any other. It is about Indigenous peoples and their traditional and contemporary ways of living. Elders is a series of chapters authored by tribal elders from around Australia. They speak simply and movingly, and his visually stunning photography supports their words. Elders is a book to appeal to the widest possible audience. It is the most representative account of Aboriginal people's lives, culture and beliefs in book form. |
Contents
HEALING | 1 |
THE LAND | 11 |
HUNTING | 27 |
GATHERING | 39 |
FAMILY | 45 |
LORE LAW | 57 |
SPIRIT | 67 |
THE SEA | 79 |
CEREMONY SONG | 99 |
Authors Note | 110 |
Map of Aboriginal Australia | 112 |
Acknowledgements 117 | |
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Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal Aboriginal brothers animals Australia baby bamboo Bora born brothers and sisters bush camp canoe CAPE Cape Barren Island ceremony child coast comes communities Coranderrk crocodile culture dance dugong eagle Elders everything Father fight fire fish go hunting goanna Grandfather Grandmother Gumatj heal hunters Indigenous kangaroo keep kernge kill Kungka land leave listen living look Lore LOWITJA O'DONOGHUE MANDAWUY YUNUPINGU Manta married meat medicine Mother Earth Mother Nature never night non-Indigenous Noongar Ocean plants poison red kangaroo respect sacred sick snake someone spear spirit stingray story survival Taipan talk Tasman Sea Tasmania teach tell terra nullius there's things Torres Strait Islanders totem traditional tree tribe turtle wait walk water hole what's Whitefella woman women woomera Wurundjeri Yolngu Yuin
References to this book
Communication Skills Toolkit: Unlocking the Secrets of Tertiary Success Jane Grellier,Veronica Goerke No preview available - 2006 |