[PDF] Healers Of Arnhem Land eBook

Author : John Cawte
Publisher : University of New South Wales
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780868403519

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For two decades, from 1970 to 1990, Professor Cawte annually visited the Yolngu clan of northeast Arnhem Land. During this time he recorded, with the clan leaders' permission, traditional medicinal knowledge, and healing scenes were specially enacted and photographed. This information is now presented publicly for the first time in Healers of Arnhem Land. In an attempt to span the gulf between European and Aboriginal cultures, and to encourage tolerance and understanding, this book presents anxieties and distress as intriguing mysteries, threats and challenges that confront both cultures.

Author : Harry William Breydon Eastwell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 1973
Category :
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Comments on traditional system of medicine & competition from Western system, suggests reevaluation of role of traditional healer; outlines way of life on missions & settlements in Arnhem Land reserve (population, housing, health services, education), table shows number of healers for 11 places (Croker Island, Goulburn Island, Oenpelli, Maningrida, Milingimbi, Elcho Island, Yirrkala, Umbakumba, Angurugu, Numbulwar, Ngukurr), lists 6 areas of concern to Aborigines; functions of native practitioner, views on causes of illness, (tribal practitioners function as coroner or diviner of cause of death, functions as psychiatrist (cases cited for each with Western & Aboriginal diagnoses & details of treatment), function in the Dispensary Syndrome, harmful intervention by tribal practitioner (case cited); contrasts positive & negative aspects of tribal medicine (from Western view), deficiencies of Western medical system (from Aboriginal view); 3 ways of involving tribal practitioner in health care.

Author : Allegra Taylor
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1446459829

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Allegra Taylor has journeyed throughout the world in a quest to understand how healing works. She chronicles her own gradual acquisition of healing skills as she explores a whole range methods and ideas. She discovers that the healer is essentially a catalyst, not a magician. That health is much more than mere absence of disease. That the power to heal is one face of the power to love. That anyone can do it.

Author : Why Warriors P/L
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
ISBN : 9780987387400

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Author : Dianne Johnson
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1743323875

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Written by anthropologist Diane Johnson, Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia has been in demand since its publication in 1998. It is a record of the stars and planets which pass across night-time.

Author : Heather McDonald
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780522849813

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In this fascinating and beautifully written book, Heather McDonald examines Aboriginal people's experiences of colonialism and post-colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Blood, Bones and Spirit analyses how Aboriginal people have appropriated Biblical stories of land inheritance, expansion and loss in order to make sense of their own dispossession. It investigates the embodiment of Christianity by Aboriginal people through their appropriation of Christ's body-his blood, bones and spirit-in order to replenish and heal their own colonised bodies. Indeed, this local study of Christianisation in a small East Kimberley town presents a challenge to the very history and philosophy of Western religion. Heather McDonald spreads out before the reader various aspects of Aboriginal Christianity: the way Aborigines have assimilated Christian stories to make sense of their history and their relationships with the dominant society; their understanding of what it means to be Christian; their church activities; and their conflicting interpretations of the Christian way of life. Aboriginal Christians are repossessing the land and reclaiming a traditional, earth-bound, world-immanent spirituality. These Aboriginal understandings of colonisation (including missionisation) and Aboriginal ways of interpreting and understanding Christianity offer a unique contribution to the reconciliation process.

Author : Robert Hillman
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1743096305

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This unique Indigenous man is one of the most inspiring music stories of our generation. From concert halls to recording studios and into Aboriginal heartlands, this is the story of Australia's Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. This unique Indigenous man is one of the most inspiring music stories of our generation. Part road trip, part biography, Robert Hillman's account of Gurrumul's life and music offers rare insights into the sources of his inspiration. The book includes interviews with family and friends, song lyrics and exclusive photographs. His story is one of a great talent revealed and of an astonishing musical gift that has left audiences all over the world spellbound. Part road trip, part biography, Robert Hillman's account of Gurrumul's life and artistry takes you behind the scenes and offers rare insights into the sources of his inspiration. In interviews with family and friends, Gurrumul emerges as a man of his people, shaped by the beliefs, rites and ceremonies of a richly engaging culture.

Author : Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjar Yankunytjatjara Women's Council
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9781921248825

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Traditional Healers of the Central Desert contains unique stories and imagery and primary source material: the ngangkari speak directly to the reader. Ngangkari are senior Aboriginal people authorised to speak publicly about Anangu (Western Desert language speaking Aboriginal people) culture and practices. It is accurate, authorised information about their work, in their own words.The practice of traditional healing is still very much a part of contemporary Aboriginal society. The ngangkari currently employed at NPY Women's Council deliver treatments to people across a tri-state region of about 350,000 sq km, in more than 25 communities in SA, WA and NT. Acknowledged, respected and accepted these ngangkari work collaboratively with hospitals and health professionals even beyond this region, working hand in hand with Western medical practitioners.

Author : Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781919876580

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This book explores the role of the social and natural sciences in supporting the development of indigenous knowledge systems. It looks at how indigenous knowledge systems can impact on the transformation of knowledge generating institutions such as scientific and higher education institutions on the one hand, and the policy domain on the other.

Author : Neil Thompson
Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 1989-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 085575561X

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Includes health policy and programs; nutrition; child health; communicable diseases - sexually transmitted and leprosy; endocrine and metabolic diseases; blood and blood-forming diseases; mental health; nervous system and sensory organs - eyes and ears; diseases of circulatory system, respiratory system, digestive system, genito-urinary system, skin, musculoskeletal system; obstetrics and gynaecology; women's health; and substance abuse.