White Man's Dreaming: Killalpaninna Mission 1866-1915

by Christine Stevens

Christine Stevens' detailed and sympathetic work documents a unique experience in Australian history--the first large-scale interaction between Christian Europeans and hunter-gatherer Australian Aborigines. Recounting how Lutheran missionaries' attempts to dominate and proselytize the Diyari Aborigines led sadly to degradation and suffering for both groups, the book nevertheless preserves some valuable linguistic and ethnographic work. Drawing from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019553574X
• ISBN13: 9780195535747
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"