Country of the Heart

Name: Country of the Heart
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SKU: 9780855757762
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An Australian Indigenous Homeland

By Nancy Daiyi and Kathy Devereaux and Margaret Daiyi and Linda Ford and April Bright and Deborah Bird Rose

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Country of the Heart introduces readers to the profound connections between Aboriginal people and the land that has sustained them for generations. Through evocative photographs and the stories of the MakMak clan women—traditional custodians of Wagait country—authors reveal the intimate relationships linking people, animals, plants, ancestors, and seasons. Indigenous academic Linda Ford and her family share their ongoing efforts to maintain the health of their country, highlighting how the land is central to Indigenous identity.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in Indigenous Australian culture, environmental studies, and those seeking a deeper understanding of Aboriginal relationships with land and identity.

Provides an introduction to the connections between Aboriginal people and the land that has sustained and nurtured them for generations. Through photographic images and the stories of the MakMak clan women, this title takes the reader into the heart of country: the people, the animals, the plants, the ancestors, and the seasons.

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Country of the Heart provides an introduction to the connections between Aboriginal people and the land that has sustained and nurtured them for generations. Through the wonderful photographic images and the stories of the MakMak clan women (white-breasted sea eagle), readers are led into the heart of country: the people, the animals, the plants, the ancestors, the seasons and the intimate relationships which tie them together.

The story is told through the voices of Indigenous academic, Linda Ford, and her family, the traditional custodians of Wagait country. Their story includes the challenges her people continue to meet to maintain the health of country. As Ford says: Country gives us our identity.

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Tom Griffiths, history professor at Australian National University, praises the book as "both poetic and scholarly, visual and textual," noting it as a work grown over years and emerging from a scholar at the height of her powers.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780855757762

Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2011

Country: Australia

Imprint: Aboriginal Studies Press

Illustration: colour illus

Contributors:

Photographs by Sharon D'Amico

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 187.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 458g

Pages: 176

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April Bright Deborah Bird Rose Education & Reference Kathy Devereaux Linda Ford Margaret Daiyi Nancy Daiyi Non-Fiction

About the Author

Deborah Bird Rose is a professor in the Center for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and the author of Dingo Makes Us Human, Hidden Histories, and Wild Dog Dreaming. She is also a coeditor of the Australian Humanities Review. Sharon D'Amico is an award-winning eco-photographer. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

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