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This book is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was overrun by the world's greatest empire.Seven of Australia's leading historians reveal the true stories of individuals-both black and white-caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period of history. Their story begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1993 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia.

Aboriginal Australians --- History. --- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of. --- Australiens (Aborigènes) --- Attitudes envers les Australiens (Aborigènes) --- Aboriginal Australians. --- Politics and government. --- Government relations. --- Histoire. --- Relations avec l'État.

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How does one read across cultural boundaries? The multitude of creative texts, performance practices, and artworks produced by Indigenous writers and artists in contemporary Australia calls upon Anglo-European academic readers, viewers, and critics to respond to this critical question. Contributors address a plethora of creative works by Indigenous writers, poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and painters, including Richard Frankland, Lionel Fogarty, Lin Onus, Kim Scott, Sam Watson, and Alexis Wright, as well as Durrudiya song cycles and works by Western Desert artists. The complexity of these creative works transcends categorical boundaries of Western art, aesthetics, and literature, demanding new processes of reading and response. Other contributors address works by non-Indigenous writers and filmmakers such as Stephen Muecke, Katrina Schlunke, Margaret Somerville, and Jeni Thornley, all of whom actively engage in questioning their complicity with the past in order to challenge Western modes of knowledge and understanding and to enter into a more self-critical and authentically ethical dialogue with the Other. In probing the limitations of Anglo-European knowledge-systems, essays in this volume lay the groundwork for entering into a more authentic dialogue with Indigenous writers and critics.

Aboriginal Australians --- Australiens (Aborigènes) --- Cultural assimilation --- Acculturation --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Cultural assimilation. --- Arts, Aboriginal Australian. --- Social life and customs. --- Civilization. --- Aboriginal Australian arts --- Arts, Australian aboriginal

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"A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert. The outcome of fieldwork conducted in the area in the 1980s and 1990s, it was originally published in French as Les jardins du nomade: Cosmologie, territoire et personne dans le desert occidental australien." "In her study, Sylvie Poirier explores the contemporary Aboriginal system of knowledge and law through an analysis of the relationships between the ancestral order, the 'sentient' land, and human agencies. At the ethnographical and analytical levels, particular attention is given to a range of local narratives and stories, and to the cultural construction of individual experiences."--Jacket

Aboriginal Australians --- Mythology, Aboriginal Australian --- Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Alchera (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Alcheringa (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Dream-time (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Dreaming, The (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Dreamtime (Australian aboriginal mythology) --- The dreaming (Aboriginal Australian mythology) --- Aboriginal Australian mythology --- Australian mythology --- Mythology, Australian aboriginal --- Social life and customs. --- Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Dreaming --- Dreams --- Australiens (Aborigènes) --- Mythologie australienne (aborigène) --- Temps du rêve (Mythologie australienne aborigène) --- Rêves --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Western Desert (W.A.) --- Occidental, Désert (Austr.-Occ.) --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Moeurs et coutumes.