Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture

by Deborah Bird Rose

Book Overview

This original ethnography brings indigenous people's stories into conversations around troubling questions of social justice and environmental care. Deborah Bird Rose lived for two years with the Yarralin community in the Northern Territory's remote Victoria River Valley. Her engagement with the people's stories and their action in the world leads her to this analysis of a multi-centred poetics of life and land. The book speaks to issues that are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521794846
• ISBN13: 9780521794848
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Best of breed

There are very few writers who have been able to respectfully penetrate the aboriginal culture and still preserve what is sacred. Rose's book immerses the reader into another reality, and she does so without superficial glorification or gratuitous pandering. Much better known in Australia than in the US (where the number of the books available about aboriginals is limited), this book is the best I've found. I recommend it to the reader who wants to get past the tour guide/New Age fare and into a much more authentic point of view.