Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town

by Heather McDonald

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522849814
• ISBN13: 9780522849813
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"