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.
Author(s): Diane Bell
Edition: 3
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 348
BOOK COVER
TITLE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS AND DIAGRAMS
FOREWORD TO THE THIRD EDITION
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION
Chapter I INTO THE FIELD
NOTES
Chapter II CHANGE AND CONTINUITY
RECLAIMING THE PAST
FRAGMENTS FROM THE FRONTIER
THE PRESENT: WARRABRI
THE JUKURRPA
BOSSES NOT PRISONERS
NOTES
Chapter III THE SUSTAINING IDEALS: LAND, LOVE AND WELL-BEING
THE KAYTEJ JILIMI AND ‘RING PLACE'
YAWULYU AND LAND
HEALTH
LOVE
NOTES
Chapter IV WE FOLLOW ONE LAW
‘SOMETIMES WE DANCE TOGETHER’
MAKING YOUNG MEN
NOTES
Chapter V THE PROBLEM OF WOMEN
NOTES
APPENDIX 1
THE WARLPIRI ORTHOGRAPHY
THE ARRERNTE AND KAYTEJ ORTHOGRAPHIES
Arrernte (Eastern Aranda)
Kaytej
APPENDIX 2
KINSHIP
THE SUBSECTION SYSTEM
COUNTRY RELATIONS
MARRIAGE
RITUAL RECIPROCITY
NOTES
EPELOGUE
GENDER-NEUTRAL: GENDER-INFLECTED
ENGAGED IS TO DETACHED AS ADVOCACY IS TO SCIENCE
UNIVERSALIZING ETHNOGRAPHY VERSUS A WOMAN’S PARTICULARIZED WORLD
CULTURAL RELATIVISM, HUMAN RIGHTS AND ETHICS
BEING HERE: BEING THERE
FEMINIST FUTURES
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY
GLOSSARY
INDEX
