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 interviews with families of those who survived the mission, Stevens offers a ...
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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 interviews with families of those who survived the mission, Stevens offers a microcosm of the metamorphosis of Aboriginal culture since European colonization.
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Add this copy of White Man's Dreaming. Killalpaninna Mission 1866-1915 to cart. $23.50, very good condition, Sold by Lawrence Jones rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nobby Beach, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 1994 by Oxford University Press.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. xii, 308pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills, erratum slip. Or brown boards in jacket. Rub mark on front free endpaper otherwise near new. The history of the Lutheran Killalpaninna Mission and the Diyari Aborigines of the far north of South Australia is stark and tragic.
Add this copy of White Man's Dreaming. Killalpaninna Mission 1866-1915 to cart. $23.93, very good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1994 by Oxford University Press.
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F- in VG jacket. F-/VG. 8vo. original chocolate boards gilt (a few marks to endpapers, slightly rubbed, tiny texter mark to tail edge, denoting one-time remaindered copy) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed & sunned, small chip to spine); pp. xii, 308, with illustrations. A very good copy.
Add this copy of White Man's Dreaming: Killalpaninna Mission 1866-1915 to cart. $86.04, good condition, Sold by HPB-Red rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Oxford University Press.
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