Viewing ofReference Material
Art students and others conducting research are welcome to make an appointment with us to view the works listed in the adjacent table.
It is also recommended for Europeans to use the online search system at KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog), in which all German and many European scholarly libraries list their available references. Sometimes the works are available for loan.
A list of further references about Australian art, which however are not yet in our reference collection, is also maintained and continually extended.
Literature in our Collection
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Shaw, Bruce: Our Heart is the Land. Aboriginal Reminiscences from the Western Lake Eyre Basin, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra 1995, ISBN 0855752548
Table of Contents ¦ Cover Text ¦ Book Review
Table of Contents
Preface -vii-
Map of region -xi-
Photographic acknowledgements -xii-
Introduction -1-
The people and their territoreis -23-
Dreamings -33-
Religious life -39-
Living off the land -49-
Early days -53-
Afghans -65-
Epidemics -71-
The stock camps -77-
Drought and flood -87-
Other livelihoods -93-
Missions -99-
Welfare -109-
Self management -121-
Contributors -127-
Select blibliography -131-
Index -143-
Cover Text
This timely collection of Aboriginal life histories provides a glimpse of a world about which little has been published previously. Focusing on themes such as religious life, living off the land, Dreamings and missions, and using the voices of men and women living in and around the Lake Eyre Basin today, Bruce Shaw records a history of oppression and deprivation, disease and exploitation, but also celebrates the survival of a rich culture, and the growth of political awareness and community self management.