Australian Spirit
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Aboriginal Australian
ISBN : 9780982306307
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Aboriginal Australian
ISBN : 9780982306307
Author : Harvey Arden
Publisher : Perennial
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780060925802
Popular account of authors encounters with Aboriginal people and culture in the Kimberley and Great Sandy Desert; definition of Dreamtime, contemporary political background; based on conversations with Daisy Utemorrah, Ted Carlton, Jim Ward, Danny Wallace, George Wallaby, Reg Birch, Betty Johnston, Jack Rogers, Billy Oscar, Banjo Woorunmarra and David Mowaljarlai; visits to Wandjina art site, Waringarri, Mowanjum, Emu Creek, Kununurra, Balgo, Halls Creek and Yiyilu; relationship to land, parallels with native Americans; land rights; alcohol abuse; station life; mythology (eagle hawk, Billaluna region, Wandjina); mining industry; ATSIC; Christianity; law and punishment; healing; smoking ceremony; music; Pigeon (Jandamarra); Mowaljarlais Body of Australia vision.
Author : Jennifer Isaacs
Publisher : Hardie Grant
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742701530
Spirit Country explores the vibrant contemporary Aboriginal art of northern and central Australia, with its diverse regional traditions – from the finely cross-hatched bark paintings of Arnhem Land to the mesmerising dotted canvases of the Central Desert, from the elaborate Pukumani poles of the Tiwi islands to the broad fields of ochre in contemporary works from the Kimberley. Jennifer Isaacs has been a close observer of the artistic renaissance across Aboriginal Australia since it began during the early 1970s. In Spirit Country she outlines the forces that propelled the movement’s initial upsurge and seeks the sources of its continuing vitality. Drawing on the rich resources of the Ganter Myer Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, she traces the widening compass of the movement, and particularly the involvement of women artists, whose works have taken contemporary Aboriginal art in new directions. For the communities of the Central Desert, the Kimberley and Arnhem Land, art is both a much-needed source of income and a vital means of personal and collective expression. The art of these remote communities is intended to send a message to the wider world, to educate and enlighten outsiders about the artists’ religious thought and the continuing vitality of their cultures. Theirs is an artistic practice that comes from a conjunction of individual creativity, ancient art-making traditions and contemporary political struggles for land. While the extraordinary abstract qualities of these works have caught the eyes of the Western art world, for those who make them they are also religious documents, maps, personal histories and title deeds to land.
Author : The Rainbow Spirit Elders
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781922582362
This book is dedicated to those Aboriginal women, men and children who gave their lives for this land, and to those who survived but have lost their spiritual connection with the land
Author : Philip Hughes
Publisher : Christian Research Associati
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0980827515
Author : Jessica Watson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Sailing
ISBN : 9781510019690
At only 16 years of age Jessica Watson became the youngest person to sail solo, unassisted and non-stop around the world. In her very own words, she tells us about her childhood, her influences, her years of planning and her incredible journey. She shares how she battled with sleep deprivation, gale-force winds, mountainous seas, whales and icebergs and what it was liek to hold firm against the solitude of 210 says at sea.
Author : Australia. Parliament
Publisher :
Page : 1830 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 1906
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Australia. Parliament
Publisher :
Page : 1464 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Mark David Sheftall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2010-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 085771032X
The experiences of World War I touched the lives of a generation but memories of this momentous experience vary enormously throughout the world. In Britain, there was a strong reaction against militarism but in the Dominion powers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand the response was very different. For these former colonial powers, the experience of war was largely accepted as a national rite of passage and their pride and respect for their soldiers' sacrifices found its focus in a powerful nationalist drive. How did a single, supposedly shared experience provoke such contrasting reactions? What does it reveal about earlier, pre-existing ideas of national identity? And how did the memory of war influence later ideas of self-determination and nationhood? "Altered Memories of the Great War" is the first book to compare the distinctive collective narratives that emerged within Britain and the Dominions in response to World War I. It powerfully illuminates the differences as well as the similarities between different memories of war and offers fascinating insights into what this reveals about developing concepts of national identity in the aftermath of World War I.
Author : Damien Finlayson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1921941286
Below the shattered ground that separated the British and German infantry on the Western Front in World War I, an unseen and largely unknown war was raging, fought by miners, 'tunnellers' as they were known. They knew at any moment their lives could be extinguished without warning by hundreds of tonnes of collapsed earth and debris.