Gurindji journey : a Japanese historian in the outback / Minoru Hokari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hokari, Minoru, 1971-2004.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Northern Territory--Wave Hill Region--History.

Aboriginal Australians.

Gurindji (Australian people)--Australia--Northern Territory--Wave Hill Region--History.

Gurindji (Australian people).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations, color portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kensington, N.S.W. : UNSW Press, 2011.

Summary:

After immersing himself in the culture of a remote Australian Indigenous community for close to a year, the young Japanese scholar Minoru Hokari emerged with a new world view. Gurindji Journey tells of Hokari's experience living with the Gurindji people of Daguragu and Kalkaringi in the Northern Territory of Australia, absorbing their way of life, and beginning to understand Aboriginal modes of seeing and being. This compelling book, published in English posthumously, seven years after the author's death, is a personal, philosophical, lyrical record of his journey into Indigenous Australian culture. Part memoir, part history, part theory, Gurindji Journey is the story of Hokari's discovery of Gurindji modes of history and historical practice. It is a breathtaking work that opens up new pathways for approaching cross-cultural history, anthropology and historical epistemology. It will appeal equally to historians of place and oral traditions, readers in Indigenous cosmology and customs, theory lovers, anthropologists and anyone interested in Australian Aboriginal history and culture.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

A conversationwith Minoru Hokari

A supervisor's reflections

A conversation with Minoru Hokari

Being connected with Minoru

Introduction to the Japanese edition

Author's preface

Author's acknowledgments

Yuki Hokari's acknowledgments

Chapter 1: What am I doing in Australia?

Chapter 2: Maintaining history

Chapter 3: Place-oriented history

Chapter 4: Jacky Pantamarra

Chapter 5: Wave Hill Station

Chapter 6: Cattle, Dreaming and country

Chapter 7: The Gurindji walk-off

Chapter 8: 'New Generation'

Chapter 9: For theory lovers only (if you are not, please skip to the next chapter)

Chapter 10: Chill out - But the journey never ends

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781742245522

1742245528

OCLC:

742688412