Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin : A World That Is, Was, and Will Be

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Diane.

Contributor:

Mackenzie, Janet, Contributor.

Language:

Australian languages

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Hindmarsh Island (S. Aust.).

Narrinyeri (Australian people)--Social life and customs.

Oral tradition--Australia--Goolwa (S. Aust.).

Sacred space--Australia--Goolwa (S. Aust.).

Women, Narrinyeri--Social conditions.

Narrinyeri (Australian people)--Social life and customs--Goolwa (S.A.)--Australia--Folklore.

Narrinyeri (Australian people).

Narrinyeri (Australian people)--Social conditions--Goolwa (S.A.)--Australia.

Women, Narrinyeri.

Oral tradition.

Sacred space.

Hindmarsh Island (S. Aust.).

South Australia. Hindmarsh Island Bridge Royal Commission.

South Australia.

Local Subjects:

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Hindmarsh Island (S. Aust.).

Narrinyeri (Australian people)--Social life and customs.

Oral tradition--Australia--Goolwa (S. Aust.).

Sacred space--Australia--Goolwa (S. Aust.).

Women, Narrinyeri--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (750 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Spinifex Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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 ?fabricated" their beliefs to stop the building of a bridge from Gool

Contents:

Cover; Award-Winning Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin; Readers Engage with Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin; Other Books by Diane Bell; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Ngarrindjeri Terms; Dedication; Maps; Preface to the New Edition; Prologue: Being Here: Being There; Part One: Ngarrindjeri A Distinctive Weave; 1. Weaving the World of Ngarrindjeri; Weaving Women; Sustaining Stories; The Respect System; Making Baskets: Making Family; Feather Flowers: The Land of Pelicans; Weaving the Past; Weaving New Worlds; 2. Shared Designs, Different Strands

Ngurunderi: Landscape and Culture, United and DividedLife on the Mission: From Taplin's Time On; Religion: On and Off the Mission; Life on Farms and in Fringe Camps: Learning by Word of Mouth; Life in the Home: Being Taken Away; Ngarrindjeri of High Literary Degree; Wururi: Many Dialects, One Body; The Circle of Language; 3. Singing: "Pakari Nganawi Ruwi" (Prayer song for my country); Pinkie Mack: Singing of Welcome and War; Many Meanings: Few Recordings; Songs of the Southeast; Songs and Ceremonies of Yore; Gospel, Glee Clubs and Guitars; Pakari Songs: Twentieth-Century Dreaming

4. Family, Friends and Other RelationsNgatji: "Friend, Countryman, Protector"; Ngatji: Accommodating Change; Ngatji Stories: Krowali, Krayi and Others; Miwi: Feeling and Knowing; Ngia-ngiampe: Birth Relations; The Power of Naming; Genealogies: Families First; Whose Genealogy?; Family Connections: Something Old, Something New; 5. A Land Alive: Embodying and Knowing the Country; A Living, Changing Land; Ruwi and Ruwar: Land and Body; A Gendered, Embodied Land; A Restricted Body: Narambi-Dangerous and Forbidden; Burials: Ensuring a Safe Place, Coming Home; Changing Practice: Persistent Values

6. Signs and Sorcery: Finding Meaning in a Changing WorldReading the Signs; The Mingka Bird; The Return of the Whales; Signs from the Past and Present; Powerful Presences; Putari Practice; The Mulyewongk: A Story for All Ages; Fear of Foreigners, Small People and the Dark; Part Two: The Politics of Knowledge; 7. Respecting the Rules: Oral and Written Cultures; Whose Knowledge? Whose Rules?; A Two-Way Dialogue; Side-bar Dialogues; Respecting the Rules; With Respect to Gender; Taking Time and Talking in Riddles; The Trouble with Books; Staying Silent: Speaking Out

A Community of Belief and a Culture of Dissent8. Sorting the Sources: Writing about the Lower Murray; Who has Fabricated the Ngarrindjeri?; First Sightings: Writing the Ngarrindjeri into existence; A Dying Race: Recording Nineteenth Century Ngarrindjeri; Museums and Memory Culture: Tindale, Berndt et al.; Recording the Word: From passive to active voice; On Silences, Assumptions and Censorship; On Women, Feminists and Ethnography; Of Courts, Consultants and Armchairs; Finding Meaning in a Changing World: A constant; 9. Women's Beliefs, Bodies and Practices; Gendered Work: Gendered Analyses

Sacred Moments: Sacred Relationships

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781742199139

1742199135

OCLC:

881414949