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Talking sideways : stories and conversations from Finniss Springs / Reg Dodd and Malcolm McKinnon.
- Title
- Talking sideways : stories and conversations from Finniss Springs / Reg Dodd and Malcolm McKinnon.
- Author
- Dodd, Reg,
- Publication
- St Lucia, QLD : UQP, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DU330.F56 D63 2019 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McKinnon, Malcolm,
- Description
- xiii, 290 pages : illustrations, map, portraits; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 'That's the way it is with us mob. We were brought up to talk kind of sideways. That's the respectful, true Aboriginal way.' Reg Dodd grew up at Finniss Springs, on striking desert country bordering South Australia's Lake Eyre. For the Arabunna and for many other Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has been a homeland and a refuge. It has also been a cattle station, an Aboriginal mission, a battlefield, a place of learning and a living museum. With his long-time friend and filmmaker Malcolm McKinnon, Dodd reflects on his upbringing in a cross-cultural environment that defied social conventions of the time. They also write candidly about the tensions surrounding power, authority and Indigenous knowledge that have defined the recent decades of this resource-rich area. Talking Sideways is part history, part memoir and part cultural road-map. Together, Dodd and McKinnon reveal the unique history of this extraordinary place and share their concerns and their hopes for its future.
- Subjects
- Arabana (Australian people)
- Arabana (Australian people) > Australia > South Australia > Biography
- Biography: general
- Australian
- Aboriginal Australians > South Australia > Marree Region
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander content
- History
- Aboriginal Australians > South Australia > Eyre, Lake > Social life and customs
- Aboriginal Australians > South Australia > Eyre, Lake > History
- Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs
- Dodd, Reg
- Biographies
- Biography
- South Australia > Lake Eyre
- Eyre, Lake (S.A.) > History
- McKinnon, Malcolm
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-289).
- Contents
- On talking sideways -- An Arabunna family story -- The love of a difficult place -- Growing up two ways -- Time travelling -- The mission, the saddle and the bottle -- Trouble -- The blow-up and the aftermath -- Mixed blessings -- Staying close to the ground -- Unlikely alliances -- Imagining the future -- Creation stories, personal stories -- Sharing a song.
- ISBN
- 9780702260407
- 0702260401
- 9780702262111
- 0702262110
- 9780702262104
- 0702262102
- 9780702262128
- 0702262129
- LCCN
- 2019393841
- 40028964101
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries