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Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World That Is, Was, and Will Be
Contributor(s): Bell, Diane (Author)

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 ISBN: 1742199186     ISBN-13: 9781742199184
Publisher: Spinifex Press
OUR PRICE: $35.10  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
Dewey: 306.089
LCCN: 2014472761
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6" W x 9.2" L (1.90 lbs) 730 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Australian
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
In 1995, a South Australian Royal Commission found Ngarrindjeri women to have "fabricated" 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 "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. In the preface to the new edition, Diane Bell looks to the world that "will be," 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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