Name: Daughters of the Dreaming
Brand: Spinifex Press
SKU: 9781876756154
Price: 21.95 GBP
Availability: InStock

Daughters of the Dreaming

By (author): Diane Bell

Published by Spinifex Press

In Stock

£21.95

Format: Paperback
Pages: 342
Illustrations: b/w photos & maps
ISBN: 9781876756154
Publication Date: 01-May-2002

Subjects:
Gender studies: women
Indigenous peoples
Social & cultural anthropology
ethnography
Australia

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An outstanding study of Aboriginal women's lives. Living in the community, developing friendships which spanned decades, Diane Bell shines a light on the importance of women's role in Australian Aboriginal desert culture. As maintainers of land, ritual and culture, indigenous women of central Australia share the patterns of their lives in this remarkable and enduring book. Diane Bell was controversial in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and remains so today. Not everyone agrees with her but she demands to be read.

After a distinguished career in Australia and the USA, Diane Bell has retired to Ngarrindjeri country in South Australia where she continues to research, write and strategise around issues of local, national and international importance. She has authored numerous articles and edited eight books. Diane Bell now lives in Canberra where she continues to write, speak, strategise and advocate for a more just society: a concept that underwrites and unifies the various and varied facets of her feminist anthropological stance on life.