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Why warriors lie down & die : towards an understanding of why the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land face the greatest crisis in health and education since European contact : djambatj mala / by Richard Trudgen.
- Title
- Why warriors lie down & die : towards an understanding of why the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land face the greatest crisis in health and education since European contact : djambatj mala / by Richard Trudgen.
- Author
- Trudgen, Richard.
- Publication
- Darwin, N.T. : Aboriginal Resource & Development Services, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DU125.Y64 T78 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vi, 270 p. : maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Why warriors lie down and die.
- Alternative Title
- Why warriors lie down and die
- Why the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land face the greatest crisis in health and education since European contact
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-261).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part 1. The Yolnu of Arnhem Land -- 1. Wanarr's gift is broken -- 2. A crisis in living -- 3. The trouble with Yolnu is -- Part 2. A war of words -- 4. The essence of human interaction -- communication -- 5. What language do you dream in? -- 6. Thirteen years of wanting to know -- 7. You can hear the grass grow -- 8. Is the age of knowledge and thinking at an end? -- Part 3. The cost of being different -- 9. Witch doctor is the real doctor -- 10. Living hell -- 11. Stop the world -- I want to get off -- Part 4. Warriors they were and warriors they can be again -- 12. Owners of information -- 13. Treating the symptoms or the cause? -- 14. Rewriting the future.
- ISBN
- 0646395874
- 0646395874 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2001535920
- OCLC
- 49704893
- SCSB-12123464
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library