Outback / Thomas Keneally ; with photographs by Gary Hansen and Mark Lang
- Bib ID:
- 735923
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Keneally, Thomas, 1935-
- Description:
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- Sydney : Hodder and Stoughton, 1983
- 256 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0340336692
- Summary:
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Profile of life in the Northern Territory in character sketches and anecdotes with considerable Aboriginal content focusing on world view and cosmology; mentions numerous tribes including Warlpiri, Jankuntjatjara, Gagadju, Pintubi, Pintjantjatjara; alcohol and petrol sniffing; life on missions, settlements and out-stations; (mining royalties, legal aspects land councils); relationship to land mythological associations; Ayers Rock (Uluru) totems; x-ray paintings at Nourlangles Rock, Obiri Rock; Kaditja men; the ngangnkari (Aboriginal physician), Aboriginal health workers and concepts of health and illness; experience of Pintubi man charged with murder with European legal system.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Maps on lining papers.
- Library's N copy has signed by Thomas Keneally, 1 December 2011.
- Subject:
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- Australia. Rural regions. Social life
- Country life -- Northern Territory
- Law enforcement - Customary - Kadaitcha
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Yankunytjatjara language (C4) (NT SG52-16)
- Art - Art motifs - X-Ray
- Health services - Health workers
- Pintupi people (C10) (NT SF52-11)
- Gaagudju / Gagadju / Gagadyu language (N50) (NT SD53-01)
- Councils - Land Councils
- Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Substance use - Solvent / Petrol / Glue sniffing
- Pintupi language (C10) (NT SF52-11)
- Pitjantjatjara people (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Substance use - Alcohol
- Land rights - Compensation and royalties
- Yankunytjatjara people (C4) (NT SG52-16)
- Indigenous knowledge - World view
- Land rights - Mining industry
- Religions - Christianity - Lutheran Church
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Pitjantjatjara language (C6) (NT SG52-11)
- Religion - Totemism
- Gaagudju / Gagadju / Gagadyu people (N50) (NT SD53-01)
- Northern Territory -- Description and travel -- 1976-1990
- Warragul map area (E Vic Gippsland SJ55-10)
- Nourlangie (Kakadu, NT SD53-01)
- Uluru / Ayers Rock (South Central NT SG52-08)
- Ubirr / Obiri (Kakadu, NT SD53-01)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1983
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