"Daughters of the Dreaming" is not only a work of ethnographic importance. It also explores the nature of the changes in gender relations in Aboriginal society. Diane Bell was accepted as an adult woman who might be given ritual instruction, who participated in their ceremonies, and visited their sacred sites. But she was faced with an enigma: here was a group of Aboriginal women proud and knowledgeable in the ways of the "jukurrpa" (Dreaming Law) who were regarded by anthropologists as second class citizens, as the pawns in the games of the male polygynous gerontocracy, the exploited and excluded, the substance of symbols but never the makers of their own social reality. Who was fooling whom? Was it the orientation of the fieldworker, the bias of the discipline of anthropology, an imposition of middle-class notions of male/female relations onto Aboriginal society? This study of Aboriginal women's lives from a feminist perspective is been long overdue.
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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 Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Australia, Barrow Creek, Phillip Creek, Devil's Marbles, Tennant Creek, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Rainbow Men, Transcript of Evidence, Warrabri Kaytej, Warrabri Warlpiri, Arnhem Land, Baldwin Spencer, Catherine Berndt, Jane Goodale, Northern Australia, South Australia, Hanson River, Health Department, Dreamtime Law, Francis Gillen, Frew River, Hooker Creek, Phyllis Kaberry, Taylor Crossing New!
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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 Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Australia, Barrow Creek, Phillip Creek, Devil's Marbles, Tennant Creek, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Rainbow Men, Transcript of Evidence, Warrabri Kaytej, Warrabri Warlpiri, Arnhem Land, Baldwin Spencer, Catherine Berndt, Jane Goodale, Northern Australia, South Australia, Hanson River, Health Department, Dreamtime Law, Francis Gillen, Frew River, Hooker Creek, Phyllis Kaberry, Taylor Crossing New!
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- Different Lives by Jocelynne A. Scutt on 4 pages
- Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography by Diane Bell on 4 pages
- Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Revised 10th Anniv 2nd Edition) by Patricia Hill Collins in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Woman, Culture, and Society by Michelle Rosaldo in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Tiwi of North Australia (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) by Charles William Merton Hart in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (Transformations) by Sara Ahmed on 5 pages
- Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography by Diane Bell in Front Matter, page 13, and page 42
- Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (Transformations) by Sara Ahmed on page 67, page 68, and Back Matter
- Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural Politics, Education, and Discourse of Theory by Peter Trifonas on page 17, page 20, and page 28
- Women Talk: Conversation Between Women Friends by Jennifer Coates in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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