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ISBN: 9781875559718
0.920 kgs
234 x 152 mm
688 pp
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Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin 1st edition: A World That Is, Was, And Will Be
Diane Bell

In Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin, Diane Bell presents a finely textured ethnographic portrait of Aboriginal culture. Here are the voices of women and men who struggled to protect their sacred sites in the Hindmarsh Island, Murray Mouth and Goolwa area. When they did, it became the subject of a series of court cases, legal decisions, media speculation, anthropological disputation and parliamentary conflict, ending in 2001 with a vindication of their words.

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Awards
1999 Finalist, Age Book of the Year
1999 Finalist, Queensland Premier's History Award
1999 New South Wales Premier's Gleebook Award received for cultural and literary criticism
2000 Finalist, Gold Medal for the Australian Literary Society
2000 Finalist, Kiriyama Award
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'This book demonstrates what should have been recognised in 1994, when the request for legal protection of ''the meeting of the water'' was first put. That is, gender restrictions on knowledge mean that records or studies by men see the man's world, studies by women see the women's world. The uniqueness of Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin is due to the genius of Professor Bell's genius, but it also owes much of its distinctiveness to her gender.  This is the first substantial ethnographic work with Ngarrindjeri women, and in this extraordinary book we are allowed, by Ngarrindjeri Miminis, to glimpse selected facets of the Ngarrindjeri Mimini experience.' James Knight, Australian Archeological Association

‘Every page of this book shows Bell’s great respect for the Ngarrindjeri. The women of the Ngarrindjeri read this book and approved it.’

Carol Anne Douglas, Off Our Backs

‘Diane Bell effects a subtle generic shift in non-fiction writing. Not only has a huge array of sensitive and complex material been handled with skill and respect, this book also represents a step forward because of its self-reflexivity, with the author stepping to one side to relinquish the traditional role as an omniscient authority governing the subject matter of the book with total control.’

Gideon Haigh and Mark Davis, ‘Pick of the Crop: The Age Book of the Year Awards’ The Age
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