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Murray River country [electronic resource] : an ecological dialogue with traditional owners.

Murray River country [electronic resource] : an ecologi...

Murray River country [electronic resource] : an ecological dialogue with traditional owners.

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvxX473kZg

Murray River country [electronic resource] : an ecological dialogue with traditional owners.

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Murray River country [electronic resource] : an ecological dialogue with traditional owners.

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Publisher

Chicago : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2009.

Date

2009.

Record Identifier

74VvxX473kZg

MMS ID

991016775939702626

Language

English

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Physical content

1 online resource (381 p.)

Contents

Foreword; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; SHORTENED FORMS; INTERVIEWEES; CHAPTER 1 Narratives and their relations; BIG HILL; MODERN THINKING AND WATER MANAGEMENT; LIFE WITH COUNTRY; POSITIONING KNOWLEDGE; MODERNITY AS TIME AND SPACE: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' EXPERIENCES IN SETTLER SOCI...

CHAPTER 3 Connectivity, loss and resilienceIMAGINING AN EXPANDED ECOLOGY; WATER CONNECTIONS: COMPLEXITY AND THE ECOLOGY OF LIFE; SENTIENT BEINGS, SENTIENT ECOLOGY; WHEN NATURE/CULTURE MEETS ANCESTRAL CREATORS; ECOLOGICAL ENTANGLEMENTS, CULTURAL LIVING AND DISPOSSESSION; THE DEATH OF CONNECTIVITY; RE...

CHAPTER 5 Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous NationsCREATING A PLATFORM FOR ENGAGEMENT AND ACTIVITY; NEGOTIATIONS AND POLITICAL IDENTITY; EXTENDING THE PRINCIPLES; IN BED WITH THE LIVING MURRAY; TRANSLATION AND TRANSFORMATION; SPEAKING FOR COUNTRY; CHAPTER 6 'Deplete, destroy, depart?'; CULTURAL...

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Publisher

Chicago : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2009.

Date Published

2009.

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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Summary

Discussing the water crisis from a unique perspective, this volume presents the intimate stories of love and loss felt by the Aboriginal people of Australia whose traditional country incorporates the inland rivers. A fresh perspective on the contemporary debate over the scarce and degraded waters of the Murray?Darling Basin, this account argues the...

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Murray River country [electronic resource] : an ecological dialogue with traditional owners.

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74VvxX473kZg

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvxX473kZg

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ISBN

9780855757168

DDC

333.9 333.91009944

MMS ID

991016775939702626