Voices of the first day : awakening in the Aboriginal dreamtime / by Robert Lawlor
- Bib ID:
- 22911
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lawlor, Robert
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions International, c1991
- xvi, 412 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0892813555 (paperback)
- Summary:
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General account of pre-colonial Aboriginal culture; New Age perspectives.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Preface
- Introduction
- Earth Dreaming
- Part One - In The Beginning Was The Dreaming
- Chapter 1. Images of Our Origins
- Chapter 2. Time and Space in the Dreaming
- Chapter 3. Dreaming and Creation
- Chapter 4. Colonization and the Destruction of the Dreaming
- Chapter 5. Revelation, Paradise, and Fall: The Myth of the Golden Age
- Chapter 6. Earth Dying, Earth Reborn
- Chapter 7. In The Womb of the Rainbow Serpent
- Chapter 8. Seed Dreaming
- Part Two - Living The Dreaming
- Chapter 9. Coming Into Being
- Chapter 10. The Cycles of Initiation
- Chapter 11. Aboriginal Sexuality
- Chapter 12. Dreamtime and the Sense of Being
- Chapter 13. The Aboriginal Kinship System
- Chapter 14. Dream, Earth, and Identity
- Part Three - Totemism and Animism
- Chapter 15. Totem and Society
- Chapter 16. Totem and Image
- Chapter 17. Hunter-Gatherers and Totemism
- Chapter 18. Totem and Mind
- Chapter 19. Totem and Animism
- Part Four - Death and the Initiations of High Degree
- Introduction
- Chapter 20. Death - Expanding into the Dreaming
- Chapter 21. Death - The Prepared Journey
- Chapter 22. Wise Women and Men of High Degree
- Chapter 23. Preserving the Seed
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-401) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
- Subject:
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- Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian
- Aboriginal Australians -- Religion
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Religion - Totemism
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Indigenous knowledge
- Religion - Dreaming
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Religion - Spirituality - New Age
- Australia
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1991
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