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An outstanding study of Aboriginal women's lives. Living in the community, developing friendships which spanned decades, Diane Bell shines a light on the importance of women's role in Australian Aboriginal desert culture. As maintainers of land, ritual and culture, indigenous women of central Australia share the patterns of their lives in this remarkable and enduring book. Diane Bell was controversial in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and remains so today. Not everyone agrees with her but she demands to be read.
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Diane Bell
An outstanding study of Aboriginal women's lives. Living in the community, developing friendships which spanned decades, Diane Bell shines a light on the importance of women's role in Australian Aboriginal desert culture. As maintainers of land, ritual and culture, indigenous women of central Australia share the patterns of their lives in this remarkable and enduring book. Diane Bell was controversial in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and remains so today. Not everyone agrees with her but she demands to be read.
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We were returning to the jilimi (women's camp) from the ceremonial ground where an initiation for a lad I had learnt to call 'son' was in progress. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
We were returning to the jilimi (women's camp) from the ceremonial ground where an initiation for a lad I had learnt to call 'son' was in progress. Read the first page
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